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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...latest report to the Board of Overseers, that of January 21, 1926. President Lowell writes as follows. "After the war the habit of forming club tables of friends, who met together continuously for meals, was practically given up altogether by the students. Both undergraduates and members of the graduate and professional schools preferred to go sometimes to one place and sometimes to another, and especially to cafeterias where the social side of dining is reduced to a minimum. The attendance at Memorial Hall therefore diminished until it became probable that it could not be maintained without a heavy deficit...
...past year [ending in June] of Porto Rico." General health and sanitation measures were made more effective; progress was made in education; the percentage of illiteracy was reduced. Total revenues for the year were $11,740,384, five per cent more than Treasury estimates. All budgetary expenses were met; more than $1,000,000 was paid on the floating debt; more than $400,000 remained in the treasury at the end of the year. External trade totaled $194,000,000; 88% was with...
Tuberculosis, dread disease, drew concentrated attention from doctors, public health workers, social hygienists and Red Cross contributors during the past fortnight. Last week the National Tuberculosis Association met in Washington, immediately after the International Union against Tuberculosis, which had met there the previous week...
...James A. (Bud) Stillman Jr., 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Stillman; to Miss Lena Wilson, 18, daughter of a Scotch-Canadian backwoodsman. The bridegroom is the son of Banker James A. Stillman, whose marital complications have long figured in the headlines of the daily news. He met his fiancèe seven years ago at the Stillman camp in Canada, when she was doing odd jobs around the Stillman house; was attracted by her personality, innocence, beauty, cooking. In Canada said Mother Fifi Stillman warmly, while Miss Wilson sat silent, composed: "I am delighted with...
Last Friday night the Reverend Lord Bishop met 200 undergraduates at a reception given in his honor by the St. Paul's Society at the Phillips Brooks House. In a brief address, the Bishop outlined his reasons for professing Christianity, and also told of some of his experiences, while working with college men in England...