Word: regent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...collapse of Imperial Russia freed Prisoner Svinhufvud who was hailed as a hero on his return to Helsingfors. became President of the Senate (1917-18) and Regent of Finland (1918). Threatened by Red Russia. Regent Svinhufvud offered the Crown of Finland to Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse, brother-in-law of Wilhelm II (who did not abdicate until November 1918). During the interval Prince Frederick Charles accepted Finland's Crown but delayed and dillydallied about going so far into the "bleak North" until too late. Temporarily, Finland went Red in spots. Several Finnish landowners were murdered in their beds...
Victory for the Allies and the appearance of a British expeditionary force in Finland were signals for Democracy. On June 17, 1919 the Finnish Diet proclaimed the present Finnish Republic and ex-Regent Svinhufvud took up the life of a country gentleman on his Finnish farm...
...reading, during the regular meal hour, there will be a 1935 Christmas dinner. The large dining room will be appropriately decorated in holly and laurel, with fires going in the large fireplaces. A. C. Hanford, dean of the College, Delmar Leighton '19, dean of the freshmen, Matthew Luce '91, regent of the University, Henry Pennypacker '88, chairman of the Committee on Admissions, with W. J. Bender '27 and Henry Chauncey '27, 1935 assistant deans, will all be guests of the first year class and have dinner at the Union...
...Houses. This is an error. No. 39 among the regulations for students in Harvard College reads as follows: Reception of Guests, 89. Women may not be received in a student's room or in a club-house, even with a chaperon, except by special permission of the Proctor, the Regent, or the Master. In the dormitories such permission will be given only for the hours between...
...Rooms of the Union after the Harvard -- Yale game November 21. The dance, which will last from 5 until 7 o'clock, in reported to be in response to popular demand, and has the approbation of Dolmar Leighten '17, dean of the first year class, and Matthew Luce '91, regent of the University. The affair, the first of its kind and, if successful, a possible class function in the nature of a fall supplement to the Freshman Jubilee of the spring, is made possible by the new conditions of the first year life in the yard and Union...