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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would expect the proofs of the continuance of this tendency to be found in the Dean's List enrollment, for dealing as it does with a much smaller number it is more sensitive to changes affecting these upper strata of the student body than the more inclusive general rank list. Certainly nothing of the sort can be gathered from the figures for the first half of the current scholastic year, and the best that can be said is that there is no positive sign of decline that can be laid to the innovation...
Consolidation. Dry organizations therefore marched forward to take up front-rank positions about the White House, close to Mr. Hoover's blue serge shoulder. Last week in Philadelphia the executive committee of the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education, after sending an emissary to Washington, joined its Department of Moral Welfare with 30 other temperance organizations "for a unified plan for observance of the 18th Amendment, in accordance with the wishes of the administration of President Hoover." The Anti-Saloon League was included in this Presbyterian announcement and the Presbyterians made it sound as though the political stigma that...
Perhaps the most significant of 22 routine knighthoods was the bestowal upon the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir of the rank of Knight Commander in the Order of the Star of India. Seldom has the broad-mindedness of British royalty in matters of state been better exemplified. All England knows that in one of the most unsavory trials of modern times (TIME, Dec. 15, 1924) this potentate, then heir apparent, was proven to have been surprised in Paris and in guilty company with the wife of an Englishman who proceeded to extort blackmail. The identity of the Prince was concealed...
...intercollegiate rating of the University trio is 14 goals, placing them in the Class A division of the tournament. The other college entrants; of which Yale, Princeton and Pennsylvania Military College rank as the leading contestants, must assume the necessary 14 goals, for they are not rated at more than 10 or 12. Captain F. A. Clark '29 carries a six goal handicap which ranks him as the highest scorer in intercollegiate polo circles...
Professor Tinker graduated from Yale in 1899 and, after three years of graduate study, he taught English at Bryn Mawr for one year. He became an instructor in English at Yale in 1903 and was elevated to the rank of assistant professor in 1908. Since 1913 he has held the Emily Sanford chair in the department of English Literature. During the War he served as a captain of the Military Intelligence Division of the General Staff...