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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...highest) in Black Canyon on the Colorado River. Mostly, the arguments have seen Arizonans pitted against sons of the six other States drained by the Colorado-Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, California. These have united behind California's Representative Philip David Swing and Senator Hiram Johnson, to obtain additional drinking water for Los Angeles, flood control for California's sub-sea-level Imperial Valley, and electric power for cities as distant as Cheyenne, Salt Lake City, Denver, San Diego. Arizona has doggedly called it a "power grab," a selfish California scheme to exploit Arizona's natural...
...should like to point, out to this new Cato that the candidates who receive their degrees magna or summa cum laude must at least equal the ability of those who obtain a general cum laude inasmuch as a man's entire record is examined before distinction is conferred upon him. The requirements in general excellence are for the degree summa and magna cum laude very strict, unless I have been misinformed. It is clear, therefore, that the unfortunate men who receive high honors, have as broad a culture as their brethen who receive a general cum laude...
...compulsory exercise periods is required from upper classmen, but these men may obtain membership through the School authorities. The students pay the fees for these memberships. Every effort is being made by the School administration to induce those of the upper classes to take advantage of this opportunity...
...Sound and its Relation to Music" at 4 o'clock in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Room 1, on the subject of "Vibrations". Having mastered the factors that distinguish symphony concerts from the more subtle music of the sounds emitted by, say, the Harvard Square traffic, the musically inclined can obtain a practical exposition of the art by attending the first of the Whiting concerts, to be given at 8.15 o'clock in Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building. Mr. Whiting will offer selections on an instrument not often heard nowadays, the harpsichord, and will be accompanied by Miss Collins...
They could obtain no instructions. The President would not receive them. When they called repeatedly at the Foreign Office, the Minister was always in conference. Therefore, last week, Delegates Alcorta and Costa mailed their resignations. Officially there was no explanation. Perhaps President-elect Hoover will ask President Irigoyen...