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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...issue of March 9, 1927, the Daily Herald published an open letter from the Harvard Crimson which stated that Harvard itself desired a resumption of football relations. The break last year was due to the policy of a "Rotating Schedule" at Cambridge, but that does not prevent a game next fall. The letter also states that the break was in no way due to bad feeling between the undergraduates of the two universities. We feel that the students at both universities desire the annual series to be renewed. Brown Daily Herald

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 10/26/1928 | See Source »

...ballots will have the names of the three leading candidates for the presidency printed on them and in order to vote a student need only mark his choice and sign the ballot. These signatures will be kept absolutely confidential, and will be used only in order to prevent duplicate voting and the use of fictitious names. There will also be a blank space in which the name of a candidate not printed on the ballot may be inserted. The three men who will have their names on the pasteboards will be Herbert Hoover, Alfred E. Smith and Norman Thomas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Political Trend to be Shown in Two Day Crimson Straw Vote | 10/23/1928 | See Source »

...than pay the fine, he is now in jail serving out $26.40 at the rate of $1.00 a day. And to cap the climax, the mayor of Little Rock answers a telegram of protest. "No atheist will be permitted to maintain headquarters in Little Rock, Ark., if I can prevent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEO-ARKANSAS MAN | 10/23/1928 | See Source »

With the marriage of the Tsaritsa's son to a German princess and his ascension as Nicholas II, the life of Maria Feodorovna entered its final and increasingly tragic stage. In vain she strove to prevent the Last of the Tsars, her son, from becoming the dupe of Rasputin and his other degenerate councilors. Once she said to him, "Come

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Matoushka Tsaritsa | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

Weeks, strangely enough, was a graduate of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, an institution with which the West Point athletic authorities are now at odds. However, this will not prevent the Corps as a body from honoring the memory of a former secretary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CADETS TO HONOR MEMORY OF JOHN WEEKS ON WAY TO GAME | 10/18/1928 | See Source »

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