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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Set on avenging the startling 4 to 1 upset handed them last season by the Dartmouth six, the University hockey forces will clash with the Big Green this afternoon in the hills of Hanover. The contest will mark the last scheduled appearance of the Harvard sextet before the start of the next half year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD SEXTET MEETS DARTMOUTH IN HANOVER TODAY | 1/12/1929 | See Source »

...expressing himself, he spoke, like every great philosopher, poet or artist, for all mankind. Which one of us in his own experience, has not felt the same protests against relentless Fate that find such uncontrollable utterance in the first movement? Who, again, is untouched by that angelic message, set before us in the second movement, of hope and aspiration, of heroic and even warlike resolution, mingled with the resignation which only great souls know...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 1/12/1929 | See Source »

This new type of impassioned revival has swept from place to place, from college to college. Princeton, where the first headquarters were set up, was the first to banish all exponents of the new system. Not long afterwards also suffering from a similar agitation, Oxford students issued a loud and trenchant warning against what they believed harmful to the best interests of the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MODERN REVIVAL | 1/11/1929 | See Source »

...establishment of the new nation in a prosperous and settled career probably demands stern repressive measures when the population is so lacking in inner harmony. Obviously it is impossible for every group of nationals irrespective of size to set up its own government. Nevertheless the Croats, who are the most strenuously malcontent, must feel that the establishment of the new state was merely an exchange of alien governors. It will be a tribute to the Serbians and the progress of humanity in general towards liberalism if the-rule of the Hapsburgs, does not rise in retrospect to the dignity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IN NEW DISGUISE | 1/11/1929 | See Source »

After he got his journeyman's certificate, the Ellis shopboy set out to see what other railroad shops, and the western world to which the railroads ran, were like. He got as far as Salt Lake City, where he took a job in the Rio Grande & Western roundhouse. He got married and began studying in the International Correspondence School. Soon came his first big "break," the blown-out cylinder head, now famed among Chrysler admirers, which he and a helper mended in time to send the mail-train out on schedule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Chrysler Motors | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

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