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Perry is a distinguished American name. Oliver Hazard Perry made American history with his famous phrase, "We have met the enemy and they are ours," after his defeat of the British squadron on Lake Erie on September 10, 1813. His distinguished brother performed an even greater act when on July 7, 1853, Matthew Calbraith Perry entered in his flagship, the Mississippi, Kurihama in the Bay of Yeddo in Japan, opening that great nation to western com merce...
...close of the game it was announced by the H. A. A. that two games had been added to the basketball schedule. On January 20, the University team will clash with Rhode Island State and on February 29, Northeastern will be met. Both games will be played in Hemenway Gymnasium...
...successfully, and more than one appeal has been made that pledges be paid as promptly as possible. In this connection it is particularly significant that the Princeton Student Council which has in recent years employed a community chest for the same purpose has been faced, by the insufficient response met with, to urge that the method of collecting in a lump sum be given up in favor of a return to the former system of individual drives. The Princeton Student Council in reporting its decision deplores the situation that made it necessary...
...been the result of some evangel of hate who came to Chicago from the East when Harvard and Princeton finally broke relations, but, even so, there is the feeling among Chicago Harvard men that athletic relations should be resumed. Elsewhere throughout the West Harvard graduates whom the writer has met deprecate the break without question, and invariably the first question they put to the writer involves the prospects of a restoration of football and other competitive games between the two. If in the East the two bodies of alumni regretted the Harvard-Princeton status as deeply as they...
...Quadrennial Student Volunteer Convention. They wanted to find out "What is right, what is wrong and who is responsible for good or bad in foreign missions?" To answer these questions for the 3000 students came missionaries from dangerous distant lands, U. S. leaders of all Protestant Evangelical denominations. They met together in a Masonic Temple...