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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Celebrating John Harvard's three hundred and twenty-seventh birthday by holding a short 15-minute ceremony before his statue in the Yard on November 26th, was the most important proposal presented at the first meeting of the Memorial Society held last night in the Adams House Upper Common Room. At this meeting James Brewster Hallett '37, formerly Secretary, was elected Vice-President and William Clarence Burrages '37, Secretary...
...nation, only the tabloid "Times" still supports the President. Hearst has tuned against him, and Colonels McCormick and Knox, publishers of the "Tribune" and "News" respectively, are both hot-footing it after the Republican nomination in 1936 by editorially out-damning each other in successive editions. The upper middle classes, the lawyers and bankers, are scared and make no bones about the matter. The butcher and baker, rightly accepting the editorial shrieks of the papers as gross exaggerations, are going on a "smoke means fire" theory. Only at the universities, Chicago and Northwestern, does one find any vociferous support...
...odds on Peace in the Far East rose sharply last week. Japan and Soviet Russia had virtually reached the end of their huge haggle over the famed Chinese Eastern Railway. This road meandering for 1,000 mi. across the upper half of Japan's puppet state Manchukuo cost Tsarist Russia $400,000,000 (preWar) to build. Its normal annual profit from 1924 to 1930 was nearly 20,000,000 gold rubles* a year. Even in 1933, after Japan had seized Manchuria, it earned 11,500,000 rubles. It was shorter, by 3,300 mi., than the Trans-Siberian Railroad...
...course and club house is located at the upper end of Huron Avenue in Cambridge...
Freshmen are admitted to the course for the first time this year, and in the future it will be open only to Freshmen and Sophomores. As a result of this rule many upper classmen are taking the course this year because it will be their last opportunity...