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Southward the course of Harvard takes its way. The appearance of the Business School on the south bank of the river has been followed by the purchase by the University of all land between the Learz Anderson and the Western Avenue bridges not already occupied by College buildings. This tract of undeveloped property is a map of what Harvard will be. Those responsible for the new chapel should consider carefully before succumbing to a tradition which thinks of Harvard only in terms of the Harvard Yard without regard to larger appropriateness...
...Pedro, Calif., in 1923. Strikers were imprisoned and when imprisoned they were compelled to stop singing their "wobbly" songs. By sentimentalizing this repression, and by causing his hero, Red Adams, to die in solitary confinement after dreaming dementedly of the scenes of his life, Author Sinclair has concocted a tract which will bring cheers only from those who agree with...
...demands upon the school increased both for instruction and for opportunities for research that plans were again drawn up for a Medical School building on a much larger scale than was necessary to meet the immediate need for larger quarters. These plans called for the acquisition of a tract of land sufficiently large to accommodate the proposed buildings and also to afford space for hospitals to be erected and conducted in close association with the School. Over 26 acres were secured situated in the outskirts of Boston bounded by Francis Street, Huntington Avenue and Longwood Avenue, and extending beyond Vila...
...This exhibition race took place last week; as had been expected, Johnny Hayes did not really try to beat the Algerian but merely trotted around with him once and then watched from the sidelines while El Ouati continued to drum circles on the track. The race did not at tract a crowd; for when people saw "Johnny Hayes" in a headline for almost the first time in 20 years, they had for gotten who he was. "Johnny Hayes," they said, "What...
Lease. Besides the Teapot Dome oil reserve in Wyoming, whilom Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall leased to Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair a tract adjacent to Teapot Dome on the north, in the field known as Salt Creek. Some 42 miles north of Casper, Wyo., the Salt Creek field is bigger than Teapot Dome. Its 2,000 wells produce some 38,000 bbls. per day, about 19 times the output of the 63 wells in Teapot Dome...