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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This show, the third of the year, will be followed at intervals throughout the term by more exhibits of contemporary art. Exhibits which have been announced include paintings by Margaret Sargent McKelan: the work of five Boston watercolorists, Chase, Cutter, Hopkinson, Pepper, and Hopkins; contemporary Mexican...
...Congress: He served one complete term (1919-1925) in the Senate. Seeking re-election in 1924 he was defeated by a narrow margin (20,000 votes) by onetime House Speaker Frederick Gillett in the Coolidge landslide. His revenge came in 1926 when he ousted from a Senate seat William Morgan Butler, chairman of the Republican National Committee, strongly-endorsed Coolidge friend. Last year he was again reelected, helping materially to carry Massachusetts for Nominee Smith. He voted for Tax Reduction (1928), Flood Control (1928), Boulder Dam (1928), the Cruiser Construction Bill (1929), Radio Control (1928) and Reapportionment (1929). He voted...
...sarcastically. There was an election last week, in which 19 Mexicans were killed, 23 wounded, and Pascual Ortiz Rubio, government-supported candidate, was elected by a reputed majority of 700,000 to serve as President for the remaining four years, nine months and 23 days of the six-year term of assassinated president-elect Alvaro Obregon (TIME, July...
...prominent examples, which would generally, I think, be more closely associated in our minds with a professional than with an amateur regime. The purely amateur, or to be more accurate, self-coaching stage of such sports as varsity rowing and rugby comes early in the season. Throughout the first term in rowing and until the middle of November in rugby the undergraduate officers of the respective groups take charge of the entire work of training their men. And even after the end of their term as instructors the various captains retain an important voice in the selection of the teams...
Through intramural athletics the Department of Physical Education tries to interest the student in both team and individual games. It urges everybody to seek the benefits of the intramural program--namely, sportsmanship and all that the term implies, exercise, recreation, social intercourse and competition. But at the same time the Department realizes that these benefits will not be gained merely through participation in the various activities. It takes the attitude that it must teach sportsmanship, intensify exercise, enhance recreation, develop social intercourse and stimulate keen competition. Furthermore, the extent to which the program is successful is not determined...