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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time of trouble which the foreign concessions have provided for masses of Chinese seeking protection. Many Chinese recognize all this; the great majority in "conscious China" are stolidly indifferent; but the active, educated Chinese, particularly of the student class, has been able to compare the Occidental to his own, older civilization and to find the scales of judgment weighing in China's favor. Consequently, this class has been able to stir the masses out of their traditional inertia and to fan the smoldering fires of latent indignation into a fiery movement that does not lack analogy to the Boxer...
...when, for a motive of her own, a delicious minor character-the spinster sister of the durable male friend -shoehorns some one else into the host's desirable London position. As basking is resumed, it is observed that "every quarrel, however trivial, contains all the quarrels that are older than the hills...
June 18. The class will entertain at luncheon at Phillips Brooks House, the President and Fellows, the Board of Overseers, the members of all the older classes and of the three younger classes in College with the class of 1875, the class secretaries, and others...
...clock and go to the home of Paul J. Sachs, Irving Street, Cambridge. After luncheon the class will go to Soldiers Field for the Yale-Harvard baseball game. Members of the class will have dinner at the Harvard Club of Boston at 7.30 o'clock; the wives and older children will dine at the Brookline Country Club at 7.30 o'clock...
Tomorrow, after a luncheon at the home of Mr. Paul J. Sachs '00 at Irving Street, Cambridge, the class will attend the Yale baseball game at Soldiers Field in a body. That evening members will dine at the Harvard Club at 7.30 o'clock, while the wives and older children will have dinner at the Brookline Country Club at the same hour...