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...Sweet Seventeen. To save the family mortgage, a girl machinates to marry her elder sister off to a young man who has just struck oil and is therefore eligible. The girl loves him herself, but is willing to sacrifice him to keep him in the family. But the youth her sister really loves comes into a chewing gum fortune, thereby re-establishing his status as a suitor. Sister throws her fiancê over, and the flapper catches the oil magnate on the rebound...
Thirteen occupations, as well as eight different states, the District of Columbia, and Canada, are represented by the seventeen men named as candidates for the six vacancies in the Harvard Board of Overseers which will occur this June. There will be six places to fill instead of the customary five because of the death in September of William Roscoe Thayer '81, whose term as overseer would not have ended until...
...These seventeen candidates were selected by the nominating committee from a list of 313 suggestions. This year there will be only one postal ballot for election of Overseers. Additional nominations may be made up to April 1 by certificate signed by at least 200 graduates eligible to vote. The names of any candidates thus nominated will appear on the official ballot with those of the seventeen candidates named above...
...Winter Sports division of the Olympic games closed at Chamonix, with Norway the decisive victor, having scored 134½ of the 391 points allotted. Seventeen nations competed, of which the following twelve scored...
...Syndicalist Hall. The Syndicalists waited until the Communists (now their hated enemies) arrived and then began to break up the meeting. When Marcel Cachin mounted the platform, a free fight broke out. Chairs, lamps, windows and the platform were broken. Then numerous revolver shots. People fled in panic. Seventeen lay on the floor...