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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were first to print my poem, The Long Night Ride of William Dawes, and now I am sending an original Indian poem. I am one-eighth Ottawa and the only Indian poet that I know of at the present time. By the Ottawas I am called "Little Crane." They know me as a descendant of their renowned Chief Pontiac. THE INDIAN DRUM Away by the lake hangs an Indian drum- "Turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn!" It always starts booming when the wind gods hum- "Turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn!" Whenever a wreck on the beach...
...Senate voted to take from the President his present power to flex tariff rates 50% up or down...
...went into the French navy, as a doctor. Then he was posted with French Colonial troops in Indo-China, where he founded the Pasteur Institute of Saïgon. Later he was to found an anti-tuberculosis dispensary at Lille, in honor of Pierre Paul Émile Roux, present director of the Pasteur Institute of Paris (in which Dr. Calmette is the senior professor of microbiology and assistant director) and to become director of the Pasteur Institute at Lille...
Tomorrow evening at 7.30 o'clock the Pierian Sodality will present the first concert of its season in the Living Room of the Harvard Union. The program will include Handel's "Overture to the Ode for St. Cecelia's Day"; eight of Bach's dances; and Haydn's "Symphony number...
Everything so far seems satisfactory. The workers present an excellent cross-section of democracy. They give every evidence of enjoying the customary routine of industrious labor. Their conduct is satisfactory and has given no offence to the Vagabond. Casual inquiry into their lunch pails reveals little violation of the law, while their literature so far as the Vagabond's knowledge of reading French and Latin goes, is at present no threat to undergraduate morals...