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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appears the financial problem. It costs approximately $75 to send a team to Philadelphia. The League schedule provides for three trips away from Cambridge and the entertainment of three visiting teams in Cambridge. The League chooses the questions. These debates have not proved popular in Cambridge, and have attracted smaller crowds than the "free-lance" debates. Hence the Council cannot possibly afford to continue them unless it received a special grant from the College to defray the extra expense.... J. Mack Swigert, '30. Ex-President, Harvard Debating Council...
...beverage has immemorially received, its use for industrial (i. e., non-beverage) purposes has been and remains one of its vitally important functions. True, last week's formation of General Industrial Alcohol Corp., merger of General Industrial Alcohol Co., Inc., National Industrial Alcohol Co., Inc., and two smaller industrial alcohol companies, was a matter of no great moment to the Anti-Saloon League or to the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. Indeed, the U. S. public in general probably took scant interest in the facts that the new company will manufacture annually some 5,000,000 gallons of denatured...
Class B and C contain various smaller preparatory and high schools which are sending by far the largest number of individual entries...
...eminence ever since called "The Hill." About a mile west and north he set the President's House, connecting them with a broad avenue (Pennsylvania). From the Capitol and from the President's House (later the White House) were to radiate other avenues cutting the city's network of smaller streets. A parkway or Mall was to sweep westward from the Capitol to the Potomac. Stately public buildings were to fill the triangle between Pennsylvania Avenue and the Mall. President Washington's watchful eye saw the President's House begun (1792), the Capitol cornerstone laid (1793). But George Washington...
...pointed out that the idea of model assemblies is not new. Right after the conclusion of the World War many such groups sprang up. Students at London, Paris, and many smaller places were organized into international assemblies...