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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the entry of the University authorities into the lists against the proposed erection of an apartment, building on the site of Beck Hall, as reported in yesterday's edition of the CRIMSON, Harvard takes official action in an attempt to preserve a cherished landmark. Resistance to the march of progress is usually a hopeless task and the rapid growth of Cambridge as a commercial city has brought far more advantages on the whole than the occasional unfortunate results it has had upon the college. Yet there are instances where opposition is not only feasible but beneficial, and the present...
...meeting on April 13 she directed one Maria Elena Manzano, 21-year-old beauty, to proceed with four men, then present, to the city of Celaya, site of an approaching festival, there to inveigle President Calles and General Obregon into dancing with...
...Senator Hiram Johnson, southern Californians, especially in booming Los Angeles, have long sought to multiply their resources of water and waterpower by urging the Government to build and operate a $200,000,000 dam on the Colorado River. Six other States are affected by the scheme. The proposed site is at Boulder Canyon, between Arizona and Nevada. Interstate disputes have raged, arising from cultural, economic and political differences, and differences in engineering opinion. Finally, the issue between Government operation and privateering has entered...
Since the War, a community called University City has sprung up on the site of the old defensive walls of Paris. Senator André d'Honnorat gave it form and became its president. France, Belgium, Great Britain, Canada, the U. S. and other countries built houses there for students. What was needed was a central administration building. Last fortnight, John Davison Rockefeller Jr. contributed $2,000,000 for that purpose. He had looked into University City last summer and Senator d'Honnorat had come to the U. S. last winter to study university methods...
...world's greatest air traffic center' and sufficient facts are presented to substantiate the boast. The total volume of traffic during the last few months has exceeded that of Tempelhofer Field, Berlin, and Croydon, near London, long holders of first and second place. . . . The airport site is now valued at half a million dollars more than it cost. Other cities . . . may well cheer Cleveland's achievement...