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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...protested to the League that the Swiss police were guarding him against assassination so effectively that he was virtually a prisoner in his own hotel. Soon League officials persuaded the Swiss to desist. Prince Ossinski later spoke before the Conference, urging all nations to cancel their War debts, lower immigration barriers, and join with Soviet Russia in a program of universal disarmament. He spoke effectively, and some dozens of delegates crowded down near the rostrum, applauded...
...Harvard social scale is aphoristic. Every one, including both club men and non-club men, realizes that one is not a pariah because he does or does not belong to a club, or because he belongs to a club the rank of which might somehow be considered lower than another. The Report of the Harvard Student Council Committee on Undergraduate Clubs is, therefore, advisable only in one respect--and that is the light which it throws on the eating problem in the University. All other details subject themselves to this one regard. One may assume that the purpose...
...flinging of eggs, ice, bottles, epithets, at Cambridge police in Harvard Square, last winter (TIME, Feb. 21, et seq.). Each of the roisterers was required to give surety of $100 "to keep the peace and be of good behavior." Jail sentences which had been imposed by a lower court were not mentioned; hence, were dropped...
...indefinite rumors of the last two days that Edvin Wide would be paced by a trio of University runners in his attempt to lower his World's two-mile record tomorrow were confirmed by the H. A. A. last night. It was also decided yesterday to run off today the first trial heats in the low and high hurdles, as well as the finals of two weight events, the hammer and the discus...
...intramural track and field meet and Edvin Wide's attempt to lower the world's two-mile mark next Saturday give promise of presenting a spectacle even greater than Nurmi's so-called "race of the century" on the Stadium track two years ago. The University meet should bring into competition more Harvard students than any other single event in the history of the University, while Wide, if he meets satisfactory conditions both in regard to weather and competition, may be expected to negotiate the distance in better than record time...