Word: takings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present agitation for European confederation on a great scale is subject to two inherent and stubborn difficulties. The first is the Asiatic complex. Anything approaching world confederation must take account of the two enormous aggregations of population in India and China, which together include about half the human race. No world union is possible so long as this vast population might out-vote the rest of the globe. The second difficulty is that, if the majestic idea of a vast federation is actually carried out in Europe, two of the most important units must he omitted. The first of them...
...Greater Boston Intercollegiate Track Meet, to be held in the Harvard Stadium next spring with Boston College, Boston University, Tufts, Northeastern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard competing, is to be a two-day affair. Trials will be on Friday, May 2, while the finals will take place on the following day. The decision has also been made to include Freshman teams as well as the University squads in the meet...
...good standing will be allowed the privileges of upper classmen so far as af- tendance upon the last class before the holiday is concerned. That is, they will not necessarily be placed on probation if they cut the last class before the November 11th holiday. However, if they do take such cuts and their records subsequently become in any particular unsatisfactory, these cuts will weigh heavily against them...
...been followed by the Dean's Office for the last two years and is in accordance with our desire to regard attendance on the part of upper classmen in good standing not as an end in itself, but as a means to an end. Under this policy, instead of taking disciplinary action on a holiday cut as such, the effect of the extension of a holiday on the student's record is considered. For example, upper classmen are not ordinarily placed on probation for unsatisfactory records at November or April, and even at mid years all students with unsatisfactory records...
Harvard undergraduates may fly to the Michigan game this week-end, according to arrangements now being made by the Colonial Air Transport. "The Harvard Football Special" as the plane, or planes, will be known, will take off from the East Boston Airport either Friday afternoon or Saturday morning, according to the wishes of those making reservations...