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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...debating season will get under way tomorrow night when the officials of the Harvard Debating Council call together prospective candidates in a place to be announced. All speakers who intend to try out for the team will come to the meeting prepared to give a five-minute talk on either side of the question of censorship, in any one of its numerous aspects...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COUNCIL WILL PICK MEN FOR DEBATING TEAMS | 10/23/1929 | See Source »

Professor Garrod has announced that he will follow the custom established by Professor Gilbert Murray when he occupied the Norton Chair, by holding informal discussion groups in his rooms, 37 Grays Hall, on Thursday afternoons at 5 o'clock. The second of these meetings will take place tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GARROD TO SPEAK IN FIRST NORTON LECTURE TONIGHT | 10/23/1929 | See Source »

...wasted effort, but to no avail, evidently. They are still harping on the House Plan and the failure of the News to represent undergraduate opinion when there wasn't any to represent. Well, it doesn't hurt anybody and it may do some good in waking the place up and making it a little more interesting. I always said we needed more fights around here anyway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On With the Steamroller | 10/22/1929 | See Source »

...years wore on, this strange, enigmatical woman shaping her plots and counterplots, bolstering all that was vigorous in British government and culture. The tall but awkward Essex, 25, took Leicester's place as Queen's favorite when the Queen was over 50, long nosed, toothless, petulant. A few years later, harassed by his insubordination, she signed his death warrant. Alternating between vicious whim and heroism, no admirer ever brought her a full, rich, personal love. When she died, no man's hand could, by her will, touch her body to embalm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Virgin Queen | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...Brown fiasco last Saturday, an observer in the press box reported that the Princeton stands were even more inaudible than they had been the week previous. It is fortunate that the mutterings against the officials which took the place of positive support could not be heard on the field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

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