Word: poland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opportune moments, the Papacy can and does strike swift and sharp. Last week, in Poland, where 95% of all Y. M. C. A. members are Roman Catholics, the Archbishop of Warsaw, Alexander Cardinal Kakowski, decided to smash the "Y" at one blow. This he prepared to do by issuing a formal message to all Polish Christians...
Very different is the attitude at Samarkand toward the two greatest Khans.* The natives seem indifferent that the conquests of these two mighty princes made them dreaded and obeyed from Poland and Peking to India. For some reason the sack of Samarkand by Jenghiz Khan is treasured up in the native mind as an atrocity altogether reprehensible and comparatively recent (1221 A. D.). Strolling about with a native guide one hears said of whatever seems to be in disrepair that "it was all right until Jenghiz Khan came"-an explanation provocative of hilarity when offered by native children to account...
...annual mid-winter conference held at Poland Springs, Maine, was heartily approved by each member of the Harvard delegation. Harvard was represented by E. M. Baker '23, J. T. Coyle 3T.S., R. H. Holden '29, O. R. Rice '25, and C. O. Simpson...
...Poland Springs Conference was co-educational. The 1928 conference will be held at Northfield, Mass. 1928 will be a success...
Eight students will represent the University at the Eastern New England Student Conference to be held at Poland Springs; Maine, this week-end. these delegates are E. M. Baker '25, T. L. Coyle 3, T. S. L. F. Daley '27, R. S. Holden '29, E. H. Hubbard '30, W. W. Lundell 3 T. S. O. R. Rice '26, and C. O. Simpson...