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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Charles E. Persons, for the past year lecturer in the Department of Economics here has been appointed Expert on the Economics of Unemployment in the Federal Bureau of the Census. He will take up his new duties immediately...
...December, Coach F. D. Sharp will be forced to begin the development of a new team to replace the champions of last year. E. T. Gerry '31, captain of this year's team is the only letter man to return, but four of the Freshman players from the past season will be available. The University squad consists of E. T. Gerry '31, H. I. Nicholas '31, Crispin Cooke '32, A. L. Castle '32, W. F. Luton '32, N. W. Kimball '32, P. L. Richards '30, R. K. Leonard '31, P. S. Owen '32, and G. G. Holden '31. Cooke, Castle...
Scholarships which make possible study at foreign universities have received a certain amount of criticism in the past. One often hears that the very numbers of Rhodes Scholars at Oxford is a handicap to the individuals--that they can never really belong to the true Oxford, and conversely that foreign students in American colleges can never hope to get the benefit from their college years that American students receive. But the make-up of the Harvard Law School places every man on an equal footing. There is a minimum of social distinction, and an equal opportunity lies before native...
...Smallman Choir, under the patronage of Mrs. Coolidge, who has often before been the benefactress of Harvard in musical affairs. It is further noteworthy for the announcement that Mr. Arthur Whiting will give a series of concerts of chamber music this winter. Those who have followed in past years the Whiting concerts realize their importance. The men who will be introduced to them this winter will soon understand both the sorrow which met the announcement a year ago that 1928-1929 was to be their final season, and the sincere satisfaction and gratitude with which Mr. Whiting is rewelcomed this...
...very few Leonids appeared last November, and if more are seen this week, predictions may be made about the coming great show. The entire civilized world is requested in a notice received from the Harvard Observatory to assist in searching for hitherto unknown records of past Leonid showers. Dr. Fisher, known as Harvard's "meteor fisherman", believes that a great many references to the Leonids exist which have not been found. He has already received notice of a chronicle in Syria, made in Damascus in the twelfth century, and containing astronomical observations as far back as the sixth century. Information...