Word: statements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rumors to the effect that Frank Shaughnessy, Canadian Rugby coach who is instructing Crimson football candidates in the art of the lateral pass, would bring a McGill backfield well versed in the intricacies of lateral passing, down to Cambridge were spiked last night by a statement from Manager W. A. Magie '28. The Spring Recess at McGill does not begin until May 1, so the Canadians would not be able to leave the university until that date. Shaughnessy, however, takes his post as baseball scout for the Detroit Tigers on that date and will not be available...
...increasing tendency of Harvard to rid itself of local limitations as to student registration is made clear by a statistical statement of the facts in the report of the Associated Harvard Club's Committee on Schools. This report, which will be read at the meeting of the Associated Clubs in Memphis three weeks hence, shows that whereas in 1900 New Englanders outnumbered students from any other section of the country by more than three and one half to one, in 1925 the ratio was less than two and a third...
...Kent School system is hardly feasible at college, but it would be a small matter merely to present parents with other data sent them by college authorities a comparative statement of what they pay the college to educate their sons and how much more the college pays them. Such action might produce a response from persons who will presumably benefit from the college education of their progeny in addition to that from the alumni who have already benefitted. It would at least be a gesture toward a more direct and businesslike distribution of a university's financial burden...
Thoroughly modern, businesslike, Chiang Kai-shek had ready a short typed statement for the press: "Right must triumph. The Powers cannot keep China suppressed no matter how many warships and soldiers they send here. We will use the economic boycott against any nation which still desires to keep intact the treaties which have oppressed China in the past and validated the foreign concessions. The Chinese people are unable to feel contented so long as the present situation obtains...
...audience that heard this impressive statement, delivered last week in Atlantic City by Edward McKernon, superintendent of the eastern division of the Associated Press, was a band of publicity men representing the Federal Council of Churches. A very different section of the U. S. was simultaneously being given a very different picture of the Associated Press...