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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Olin Alvin Saunders, was born in Cambridge, and here under the shadow of John Harvard's walls he spent most of his youth. Now he has been granted a scholarship by the Princeton Club of New York which sends him to Yale for four years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deceased "Big Three" Becomes Incarnate in One Man as Son of Harvard Square is Sent to Yale on Princeton Scholarship | 3/5/1927 | See Source »

...tomb of Queen Hetephenes, the mother of Cheops, builder of the Great Pyramid, has just been opened by Professor G.A. Reisner '89. Professor of Egyptology at the University, who has spent several years making excavations in the vicinity of the Giza pyramids...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REISNER OPENS TOMB OF QUEEN HETEPHENES | 3/5/1927 | See Source »

...night. Coach Brown's men will not appear on the river until a few days later, partly because of the fact that shells are very apt to collide disastrously with floating ice cakes and partly due to the fact that Coach Brown believes much valuable time may yet be spent in the tank...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CREWS MAY GO ON RIVER THIS WEEK | 3/2/1927 | See Source »

...economic condition in the round. Said he last week: "There is evidence that the savings of the American people are so enormous that funds are pressing for investment on every hand. The question is, where will these funds seek employment?" Careful preceptor, he explained that surplus money might be spent on 1) plant extensions, 2) building construction, 3) real estate speculation, 4) commodity speculation, 5) security speculation, 6) foreign investments. These outlets, as far as they are honest, have been practically filled. Therefore, the too much money that remains presages "a pretty good business year because we have this very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Too Much Money | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

President A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University spent several hours last week sitting among newsgatherers in a Cambridge police court. Many another famed son of Harvard was there with him. Blood and eggs had stained Harvard Square in the largest town-and-gown outbreak of recent years (TIME, Feb. 21). Thirty-three students and six "townies" were on trial for disturbing the peace. Distinguished counsel argued counter-charges against the Cambridge police, who had, complained the riotous students, been unnecessarily brutal with their nightsticks. Nothing more serious than fines and reprimands promised to result from the hearings, but the testimony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Denver | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

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