Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mark now how a plain tale shall put you down...
When the Shantung bandits shocked the world by capturing foreigners last month, the Diplomatic Corps in Peking did some plain speaking to the Government. Individual members of the Cabinet took it upon themselves to please the diplomats by attempting to free the foreign captives. Each had a different plan. The result was that the Cabinet split. Even the brusque message from Jacob Gould Schurman, United States Minister, to get on with the business of freeing prisoners and cease haggling, only served to widen the breaches in the Cabinet...
Also Parker Fellowships for travel and study to Erik Achorn 4G., of Jamaica Plain, who will hold his fellowship for the second year to study history; Marvin Farber 1G., of Buffalo, N. Y., now the holder of a Sheldon Fellowship for the study of philosophy; Carl A. Garabedian 4G., of Cambridge, whose subject is mathematics; and Garrett Mattingly '23, of Allegan, Mich., who holds this year a Sheldon Prize Fellowship for the study of history...
Also Parker Fellowships for travel and study to Erik Achorn 4G., of Jamaica Plain, who will hold his fellowship for the second year to study history; Marvin Farber 1G., of Buffalo, N. Y., now the holder of a Sheldon Fellowship for the study of philosophy; Carl A. Garabedian 4G., of Cambridge, whose subject is mathematics; and Garrett Mattingly '23, of Allegan, Mich., who holds this year a Sheldon Prize Fellowship for the study of history...
Henry Gordon Balch '23, of Jamaica Plain, will read the Class Day oration on Tuesday, June 19, for R. F. Bradford '23, Class Orator, as the latter will be unable to leave the crew training quarters at Red Top. Bradford, who is captain and number two of the Junior University eight, will row against Yale three days after the Class Day exercises...