Word: periods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lack of competitors, is now working on plans for a new contest. Although no details will be announced for several months, it is understood that the new competition will take the form of a contest covering a year of flight in which the best records and development during that period will determine the winner. Last year Mr. Loening offered several substantial cash prizes for the winning airmen and it is believed that he will make the same arrangement in the forthcoming year...
Professor Salvemini, who is visiting this country for only a short period to give several lectures before the New School of Social Research in New York City, is one of the outstanding figures in the life of modern Italy. As a professor in the University of Florence he became involved in politics serving as a Deputy of the Progressive School. Although at the outset he was in sympathy with the Fascist movement, and one of the leading contributors to Mussolini's journals, he gradually broke away from the new party, until after the institution of the repressive system of Mussolini...
...Persian Architecture, Sassanian Period", Professor Conant, Robinson Hall...
...Debating Council. The midyear examinations prevented the Council from holding the regular try-outs. The Council regrets the necessity for eliminating the try-outs in selecting men to debate against the University of Pittsburgh team, but this was unavoidable because of the impossibility of holding them during the examination period...
Owing to its extraordinary length, the midyear period at Harvard stands out in open contrast to that of most colleges, a point brought out in a recent Yale News. For its own purposes, Harvard has arranged such a schedule as is most expedient in its own particular case. The vast number of examinations and the three hour duration of each one are facts which combine to justify the period of two weeks and a half. Furthermore, it is firmly believed that a plan which involves more than a single examination in one day defeats its own purpose when the physical...