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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decide what causes the delay. Presumably the games started at the same time as in other years and it is safe to believe that the sun is not setting ahead of schedule. The sole reason, therefore, seems to be that the games took longer to play. But why longer? One dislikes to go into personalities, but in some of the games, particularly Saturday's with Holy Cross, Dr. T. K. Richards, that enthusiastic oarsman, appeared to be the most prominent Harvard athlete on the field. Hardly would the play become exciting, before Dr. Richards, ever vigilant, would detect signs...
...winning team, composed of D. D. Lloyd '31 and R. H. Jones '31 of Harvard, Mary Glaser '30 and Catherine Ruggles '32 of Radcliffe, was adjudged best on the merits of the case by the judges, with a two to one vote, and winners on the merits of the speakers by the audience, with a 32 to 31 vote...
...Powers at the Hague. In the interim, persons whose knowledge of the situation is valued are plagued by the press to declare an opinion. Else where in this mornings's CRIMSON Professor Doriot has explained to Harvard readers the work which was accomplished at Baden, and has found but one criticism or cause for regret great enough to deserve his stress. Frankfort, he says, or Cologne, or some other German city might have been superior to Basel as a location for the International Bank...
...Bankers who assembled at Baden had to rackon with the jealousy of the Powers which forbade locating the new Bank in any center where it might be suspected of coming immediately under the thumb of one or another central bank. They had to secure some centrally located spot which could focus the European money markets, and one able to recommend itself by its banking facilities. Above all they must have been moved by the strenuous fight made by the Agent General for Reparations to remove from German soil all vestiges of financial "control" and to enable the German nation...
...Germans themselves are short-sighted enough to desire freedom from supervision, even at great cost. A bank which may some day rule the world's finance is a tied-up asset compared with the solid relish of being master in one's own house...