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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...believe, no matter how faintly, in what one reads and hears, interest increases to a surprising extent. While it is of course impossible to expect a sudden passion for the study of Greek similar to that which seized Italy during the Renaissance, it is not unreasonable to predict that the perusal of the Iliad and the Odyssey may be taken up in future with a slightly greater degree of enthusiastic abandon than has prevailed heretofore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GLORY THAT WAS GREECE | 5/6/1924 | See Source »

...combination of four very prominent intercollegiate players will be brought together on the same court, when Ingraham and Pfaffmann meet Anderson and Lang in the first doubles match. It is impossible to predict an outcome with four such evenly matched athletes. The second and third doubles combinations will consist of Briggs and Dixon, and Harrington and Cummings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TENNIS MEN TO MEET COLUMBIA NET SQUAD | 5/3/1924 | See Source »

...return of I. G. Black '24, and T. W. Hoag '25, letter men on last year's team, has strengthened the team considerably, and Coach Herbert is confident the Crimson will make a creditable showing, although he would not predict a victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LACROSSE TEAM TURNS SOUTH WITH HARDEST CONTEST AHEAD | 5/2/1924 | See Source »

...much safer to observe than predict" was the comment of Professor Holcombe when asked to express his views on the question of whether socialism was the goal of economic progress, but we seem to be moving in that direction. Three hundred years ago, it would have been regarded as the product of an extreme socialistic imagination, if one were to predict a government like the one in this country, where freedom of the will and all the other features of this democracy are enjoyed. It is natural that we will progress, and in my opinion, this progression will be towards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GIVE BOTH SIDES OF SOCIALIST QUESTION | 4/30/1924 | See Source »

...almost ready for its flight from Friedrichshafen, South Germany, to Lakehurst, N. J. The directors of the Zeppelin company foresee success and little danger. But they predict failure for Amundsen's plan of airplane flight from Spitzbergen, Norway, to Point Barrow, Alaska. "Many flights will be necessary to lay in supplies at the Pole. One forced landing on barren and broken ice fields may mean death, without the faintest hope of succor for the lightly provisioned aviators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Icy Death? | 3/31/1924 | See Source »

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