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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very pretty, your account of the eastern intercollegiate glee club contest in TIME this week [March 28], but why not tell also about the far larger and more important National intercollegiate glee club contest, which I heard here in Chicago? Northwestern, Illinois, Iowa, Purdue, Michigan, Wabash, Knox, Notre Dame, Grinnell and Milliken sang, and sang beautifully. Why the winners of the eastern contest were not there to pit themselves against our melodious Northwestern, I cannot guess. Northwestern won, with Illinois and Iowa tied for second and Purdue third. TIME-would have had something to say if it had only heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 4, 1927 | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

Being the first time that the University boxers have fought outsiders, it is hard to tell what the outcome will be and as a result of their extra experience the M. I. T. aggregation is given a slight edge over the home team. Their squad has fought in three meets already this season, as well as having entered the intercollegiates, held last week at Syracuse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOXERS MEET FIRST FOES AT HEMENWAY | 4/2/1927 | See Source »

...writers who were great in their own time have been absolutely forgotten after their death. And, vice versa, many gained their fame years after their own time. Consider Keats and Shelley, even they found but small places among their contemporaries. Time is an uncertain thing. It is impossible to tell what it will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMERICANS DO NOT HAVE MONOPOLY OF BABBITTS | 4/1/1927 | See Source »

...this is very plausible and rather a surprise to us; it may be also a surprise to the President and State Department, who can tell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOREIGN INTERPRETATION | 4/1/1927 | See Source »

...tell he's mastered fate...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 3/30/1927 | See Source »

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