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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Botanic Garden, founded in 1807, and supported by private endowment and subscription, has never been closed to the general public, except for the first three days of last week, when, due to a misunderstanding, Professor Hamblin had a fence erected between the Garden and the property of the Gray Herbarium, had all the gates locked, and denied access to all visitors. Wednesday afternoon the Garden was opened again, by order of the President...
...Each contestant must provide his own cat, pan, soap, water and towel. There will be no restriction on gloves and baseball masks. When the judges have looked over the cats, the three contestants who have made the best jobs will be presented first, second and third prizes. . . . Guards will be stationed at the sides and ends of the enclosures to make sure that no stray dog enters...
Like Mark Twain and John Singer Sargent, even a sea-elephant might think it funny to see his own obituary notices. But great-tusked, bulging-eyed, three-and-a-half ton Goliath, "the only sea-elephant in captivity," employe of Circusman John Ringling, never looks happy, and last fortnight he looked no happier when the press carried countrywide news of his death (TIME, Oct. 7). There was one sentence, moreover, which might have given gloomy thoughts to the happiest of sea-elephants: "Goliath will be mounted for the Field Museum [Chicago]." While the Field Museum congratulated itself, Goliath was basking...
This afternoon the first games of the Fraternity touch football league will be played on Soldiers Field. Games will be played three times a week, at 3 o'clock each afternoon, and the series will end on Monday, November...
While at Harvard the House Plan will directly break up the college into smaller units, each one a representative of at least the three upper classes, at Yale it is the individual class that is to be divided into houses. Past experience in New Haven has demonstrated the advantages of building the class as a strong and active body. A closely knit class at graduation possesses attractions not to be minimized and it seems likely that some of these advantages will be increased by the Yale House Plan...