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While the band played "Fair Harvard" he went to University Hall, and was shown the office of the President and the Regent. Leaving University Hall he went to Dane Hall, where members of the Law School gave him "Three hearty cheers" as he was being shown around. On the return from Dane Hall he visited the Lawrence Scientific School and the Divinity School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prince of Wales to Break Old Precedent Set by Edward VII in Visit to Harvard | 10/24/1924 | See Source »

Those who, like the guileless Playgoer, go to "Wang" knowing nothing more about it than its percussive name, will find themselves in the midst of the creditor-dodging adventures of the wily but impecunious Regent of Siam. Perhaps it is unnecessary to add that the play contains nothing which will cause patriotic Siamese at Harvard to write indignant letters to the CRIMSON. A delightfully impossible potentate is pursued through two acts by mysterious, impossible emissaries of the King of Cambodia for the price of a most impossible elephant. As the potentate has not even enough credit left...

Author: By R. O. B., | Title: DE WOLF HOPPER IS AT HIS BEST IN "WANG" | 10/15/1924 | See Source »

...music, for the Regent through his many troubles possesses the gift of song, is pleasant. Some of the hits are distinctly good, -- particularly the Crown Prince's philosophical "A Pretty Girl", --and most, are well sung. The tunes carry you back to the man who used to sing "Where the River Shannon Flows" as he beat rugs in the back yard. They are pretty and melodious, but while not holding them to be directly the cause of the War, it is no libel to say that one has only to hear them to understand the why of jazz...

Author: By R. O. B., | Title: DE WOLF HOPPER IS AT HIS BEST IN "WANG" | 10/15/1924 | See Source »

Having spent three years juggling with the world's finances, training armies, building colossal floating fortresses of impregnable steel, Hogarth blew up a few liners, destroyed the British fleet, established a toll (sea rent) on all passing vessels, finally took over England in the capacity of regent, in order to put into operation his panacea for the ills of the world-a system of land tenure by the nation, not by the individual. The Jews he commanded to return to Palestine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Super-Man* | 10/13/1924 | See Source »

...Follette-Wheeler Club has accepted the Liberal Club offer of the use of the latter's Winthrop Street quarters. The La Follette-Wheeler Club, which was evicted from Apthorp House by order of the Regent, has not had any definite headquarters for several days. The following letter was sent to the Liberal Club last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LA FOLLETTE BACKERS ACCEPT QUARTERS OF LIBERAL CLUB | 10/11/1924 | See Source »

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