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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like the famous old gray mare, the Freshman Jubilee, the paramount social event of every first year class, is not what is used to be in the days of its origin. When the Class of 1931 gathers in the Smith Hall quadrangle the latter part of May for its festivities, it will celebrate in an entirely different manner from the Class of 1918, the pioneer in Freshman Jubilees. For during the 13 years which have elapsed since the initial Jubilee, the function has evolved from a semi-concert for the entertainment of fond parents and relatives to a typical jazz...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EVOLUTION OF JUBILEE SHOWS CULTURAL DECLINE FROM TEA PARTY TO RIOT OF JAZZ | 3/28/1928 | See Source »

Last week Hungarians honored their new Duke Primate as perhaps subordinate in rank only to Regent Nicholas Horthy of the kingless kingdom of Hungary. The newly exalted Primate is humble of origin, has two brothers who are still village potters, as was his father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Potter's Son | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...Origin and Early Evolution of the Vertebrates," Professor Mather, Geology Lecture Room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 3/23/1928 | See Source »

...needle began to record its jagged lines about 11.18 o'clock, Eastern standard time, and continued its agitation for over an hour. The distance of the earthquake from Harvard was 2200 miles, and the time of the origin was calculated as 11.12 o'clock, Eastern standard time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEISMOGRAPH RECORDS QUAKE THAT ROCKS MEXICAN AREA | 3/23/1928 | See Source »

...these short, effortless three or four lines. Thus Landor like, Rabindranath Tagore, the Indian poet and mystic, in his sixty-seventh year has compiled such a collection which he calls FIREFLIES (Macmillan Co., New York, 1928, $2.50). On the flyleaf is Tagore's explanatory inscription, "Fireflies had their origin in China and Japan where thoughts were very often claimed from me in my handwriting of fans and pieces of silk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOKENDS | 3/17/1928 | See Source »

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