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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Orchestra, known also as the Pierian Sodality, was founded in 1808, and is the oldest musical organization in the United States. It offers to Harvard men who play instruments used in the symphony orchestra an opportunity to participate in the performance of standard symphonic works...
Kindly, equable gentleman that he is, Mr. Chief Justice Taft was neither vexed nor disturbed by the talk that went around Washington, as it does every year at this time, that there is certain to be a vacancy in the Supreme Court before long. Mr. Associate Justice Holmes, oldest of all the high-benchers, looked as hale and bright-of-eye as ever at 87. Even Mr. Associate Justice Sutherland, 66, who was sick and absent so much of last year, looked...
Last week, the oldest Italian daily newspaper in New York, Il Progresso Italo-Americano (founded 1880), was sold to Generose Pope, president of the Colonial Sand and Stone Co., for $2,053,000-about twice the sum which Paul Block recently paid for the Brooklyn Standard Union...
...oldest athletic activities of the University started another year at Hemenway Gymnasium yesterday afternoon, when the 5 o'clock gymnasium class gathered under the instructorship of John Wallen...
...American undergraduate is supposed to suffer, on occasions, from nearly every ailment in the oldest or newest medical catalogue. The symptoms are so often of a very complex nature that it is almost traditional to find reformers and nostrum dispensers digging far more deeply than necessary to find the cause and suggest the cure for student ailments. When a properly qualified person enters the field, and suggests a probable, though simple cause, he is ignored merely because he is not spectacular enough. The tabloids demand at least a scandal, and the serious-minded expect a psychological complication of the most...