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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pennsylvania senatorial primary expenditures were last week scrutinized by a Senatorial Committee appointed to examine charges that the candidates, especially Vare and Pepper, had spent extravagant sums during their campaigns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Inquiry | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

...money was spent in three ways. The largest item was the total cost of the Sophomore smoker, including rental, refreshment, and entertainment, which amounted to $492.20. The Sophomore scholarship cost $250 and the annual dues to the Student Council $100, so that the balance on hand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ABOUT A HUNDRED DOLLARS LEFT IN SOPHOMORE CLASS TREASURY | 6/17/1926 | See Source »

Professor Osterhout, who was for 15 years a member of the Botany department at Harvard, resignd from the University last spring to become head of the division of general psychology of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. Professor Osterhout graduated from Brown University in 1893 and spent two years following his graduation an the University of Bonn before taking his doctor's degree at the University of California. In 1909 he came to the University as Assistant Professor of Botany and in 1913 was made Professor of Botany...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OSTERHOUT IS HONORED BY BROWN UNIVERSITY | 6/17/1926 | See Source »

This morning the Freshmen and the seconds spent most of the time working on racing starts which both coaches are placing much emphasis on. The combination eight under Coach Newell went for a seven-mile paddle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROUGH WATER SENDS OARSMEN FOR HIKE | 6/16/1926 | See Source »

...have entered once again upon that period which is agony for the student and joy to the instructor, according to the average undergraduate's viewpoint. Final examinations are upon us; a day and a night spent in hurried review of a course, remembering dates and names, movements, policies, statesmanship; hurried jottings of calculations, of supposedly important facts (if we know or have an idea of what the instructor likes): charred table-edges from forgotten cigarettes, a blue haze of tobacco smoke, heeled butts crowding the corners. Visions of the instructor who faithfully peruses his text in order that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS-- | 6/16/1926 | See Source »

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