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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dean Briggs praised the cause for which the carnival is being given and also the program itself. The text of his letter is as follows...

Author: By "l. B. R. briggs.", | Title: DEAN BRIGGS ENDORSES RADCLIFFE ICE CARNIVAL | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

...representatives present, A. A. Link and Lester Samuels offered to concede a slight change in the eligibility rule, the representatives of the other three colleges felt that the question would not be satisfactorily settled in this way. Accordingly at the conclusion of the meeting Mr. Link gave out the text of the resolution adopted, which practically put an end to the organization: ""Resolved, that Harvard and Princeton do withdraw from the C.-H.-Y.-P. College Chess League and that, because of their action, Yale do likewise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHESS ELIGIBILITY SQUABBLE BREAKS UP C-H-Y-P LEAGUE | 1/6/1925 | See Source »

...Proposed Amendment (text in full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: A 20th Amendment? | 1/5/1925 | See Source »

...December American Mercury, the unrest became drastic. Prof. Richard Burton, of the University of Min- nesota, took Why Go To College for a text and preached the exclusion from seats of learning, not only of the "cake eater" (see above), but also of that "monument of misapplied energy" and "machinelike assiduity," the dig, grind, poler, swatter, the "young man or woman of mediocre or worse calibre who lacks initiative, personality, creative energy. . . ." Prof. Burton, a man evidently conversant with culture in many forms, was scornful of that form which is "a sort of contagion; you get it by being exposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Balm | 12/29/1924 | See Source »

...Christmas greetings within a cover on which Saunders has successfully emphasized the festive season without a hint of mistletoe or the bearded ancient, and barely a touch of green and red, distinctly an achievement. There are signs of an earnest effort to give the rest of the issue both text and pictures, the same seasonal flavor, but with an indifferent result which suggests that there may be some foundation for the persistent reports that nobody is getting into the proper mood this December...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FINDS XMAS NUMBER OF LAMPY HOPEFUL | 12/18/1924 | See Source »

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