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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eilaworth Charles Haggerty '27, of Allston; Albert Henry O'Neil '28, of Jamaica Plain, and John Nickerson Watters '26, of Winchester. These appointments are subject to the approval of the Student Council...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIVE CHEERLEADERS NAMED AS COMPETITION FINISHES | 10/21/1925 | See Source »

...also state that Mr. Henderson would not care to be styled plain "Henderson." I cannot see why he should object to that because that is the highest dignity. We do not speak of Mr. Shakespeare or Mr. Byron or Mr. Washington and Jefferson, but simply use their names...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 19, 1925 | 10/19/1925 | See Source »

Spanish operations against the Riffs became notably spectacular when several Spanish battalions made a dash in motor trucks southeastward from Ajdir, covered some 20 miles across the plain, and established themselves at Syan on the east Moroccan front. Thus they linked up with their allies the French forces, which have advanced into that region from Kifane, and apparently the Spanish thrust came as a complete surprise to both French and Riffians. If the move is consolidated into a strong series of military positions, it may well forestill the possibility of French forces attempting to operate in the so-called Spanish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: In the Riff* | 10/19/1925 | See Source »

Birth Control. ". . . .Picture a nocturnal scene between a male of the lower stratum, somewhat stimulated by alcohol, and the feminine partner of his misery, weary after a day at the washtub or scrubbing the halls of an apartment house. The mental states of the two, it must be plain, are hardly such as to lead them to pause for consideration . . . of the economic problems of the 21st century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Medical Follies* | 10/19/1925 | See Source »

...well do without TIME I am always interested in National and International politics-also other news features I like your brevity. But I do not like the mystery in which you enshroud many of your news items. I wonder why you can't boil the news down in plain English-in language the average reader can understand. Why all the display of more or less profound scholarship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 5, 1925 | 10/5/1925 | See Source »

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