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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...devil. On the great day the ladies of the Colony turned out in full regalla, calculated to shame the lilies of the field. There is a famous story of an elderly dame who sat up all night before the 1758 Commencement to save her hair, done up the previous evening by the coiffeuse, who had no other tine for that particular lady. Another writer on Commencement--one bitter toward the fop-pishdress--declares that a roomy family coach could carry but two ladies, one sitting forward and one backward, with their hoops protruding on either side...
...Previous Congresses have been held at Paris (1900), Geneva (1904), Heidelburg (1908), Bologue (1911, and Naples (1924). The fifth Congress which had been fully planned for Oxford in 1915, wasabandoned on account of the War, while the Naples Congress failed to secure a well balanced representation Hence the meeting at the University this fall was really the first international gathering sence...
...Previous to this year, it has been the custom to have regularly scheduled Monday night lectures given in each of the Common rooms in turn. The speakers for these meetings have been scheduled long in advance and they have not always been men familiar to the fist year undergraduates. Consequently, the lectures were not generally attended, even it the start of the year. The remedy proposed for this lack of interest will be a kind of Australian ballot system by which lectures popular among the Freshmen will be obtained. The system will be thoroughly explained tonight...
...building to be erected and occupied by that institution, it was announced last night. The Dunster House Bookshop and the Advocate Building, which now stand on the newly-acquired property of Manter Hall, will be torn down this fall. The land was sold by the Dunster House Bookshop, previous owners of the property...
...second item concerns today's meeting between W. E. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, and the chairmen of the Yale and Princeton Athletic Associations. The circumstances which make the meeting significant are public property. In the light of a previous rapprochement between Yale and Princeton in the matter of athletic policy it is to be hoped that today will find the so-called "Big Three," united in the only union that can be permanent leadership in adjusting sport with conflicting and counter-balancing interests...