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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...King of Greece, he is still a Royal Prince of Denmark, his fatherland. Therefore the press of Copenhagen was flustered and appalled, last week, by news that George II would appear in public debate at Oxford, England, before the famed undergraduate Oxford Union. Most unseemly to Danes seemed the subject to debate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: King v. Brains | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

League debates for the current season will get under way when the debaters representing Harvard will uphold the affirmative against Amherst on the subject, "Resolved: That the Economic prosperity of the United States is unfavorable to its morals", in Paine Hall on the evening of December 8. The negative Harvard team was to have gone to Vassar at this time, but the team from Poughkeepsie forfeited the match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIVE DEBATES PLANNED FOR HARVARD ORATORS | 11/24/1928 | See Source »

...grid-graph. Lesser considerations must stand aside as the backs go tearing by. Rarely does the Vagabond feel the urge of mob psychology, that inexplicable longing to go and do likewise, but stirring considerations like those afoot today whirl him willy-nilly to the Union. In connection with this subject the Vagabond finds that there are some interesting lectures which he recommends...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 11/24/1928 | See Source »

Alexander Woollcott, former dramatic critic of the New York Times, the World, and the Sun, will speak in the Living Room of the Union at 8 o'clock tonight. He has chosen as his subject, "Behind the Scenes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WOOLLCOTT WILL SPEAK AT UNION | 11/20/1928 | See Source »

...which, in spite of Marion Davies' acting. King Vidor's directing, and the hilarious rehearsal of a pie-comedy, reminds you that Harry Leon Wilson's Merton of the Movies, written seven years ago, was both funnier and more human than anything dealing with the same subject has been since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Nov. 19, 1928 | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

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