Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President and Mrs. Conant cordially invite all those students in the University who cannot be with their family at Christmas to their house at eight P.M. on Christmas Eve, Saturday, December 24. Professor Charles T. Copeland will read, Mr. Malcolm Holmes will play the violin accompanied on the piano by Professor Edward Ballantine. The singing of Christmas carols will be directed by Dr. Archibald Davison...
However "Copey," as he was affectionately known to a generation of students, will read at President Conant's Christmas Eve Party, and students of the Class of '42, keenly disappointed at the break in this tradition, are in hopes that he will come later in the year to the Union to deliver a reading from the Bible...
...House of Commons adopted a resolution which made it plain to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini that no colonial handout was in the immediate offing, but did not completely slam the door to future bargaining. The resolution read that "no change in the status of colonies, protectorates or mandated territories could at any time be considered which did not take full account of the interests and wishes of the inhabitants." The vote was 253 for, 127 against, the opposition Laborites voting "no" only because the resolution wasn't strong enough for them. Said Colonial and Dominions Secretary Malcolm MacDonald...
Estimating a total potential U. S. reading public of 107,300,000 persons over nine years old, excluding the blind, deaf-mutes and inmates of institutions, LIFE's experts made 8,030 interviews to appraise the number of people who see, open and read some part of an average issue of Collier's, Liberty, LIFE, Satevepost, found that 14.8% were Collier's audience, 13% Liberty's 16.1% LIFE's and 12% Satevepost's. These net percentages were established after 5,700 more interviews eliminated exaggerators and nitwits through "confusion control" tests. When the final...
...ability to read twelve languages was a major factor in winning for Archibald B. Roosevelt Jr. '40, one of the four Rhodes Scholarships given annually in the New England district. Coming from Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y., Roosevelt is a consistently brilliant scholar, and the only Harvard man to earn the award for this year...