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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White Plains, New York; Asa Emory Phillips Jr. '34, of Washington, D.C.; Thomas Edward Naughten '34, of Washington, D.C.; George Gore, of Rapid City, South Dakota; John Joseph O'Donnell '34, of Milton; Seymour Marcus Peyser '34, of New York City; and Benjamin Ginsberg, of Daytona Beach, Florida. Two upper-classmen were elected to membership: Jerrold Harold Ruskin '33, of New Rochelle, New York and George Edward Lodgen '32, of Malden. These men were on the Harvard debating team that met Princeton in the triangular debate last week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ECKLES WILL HEAD DEBATING COUNCIL | 5/15/1931 | See Source »

...last a really significant student demonstration in one of our American institutions of higher learning, and our faith in the colleges is restored. The students of St. Lawrence University, incensed at the calling off of the upper-class "padding bee" for freshmen, presented an ultimatum demanding the extension of time for parties until 2.30 a.m. and the abolition of a ruling "forbidding the parking of girls on fraternity porches during the daytime," and threatening, if these demands were not complied with, to call a strike "against all extra-curricular activities." Here are real issues and a threat of real action...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Broken on the Wheel | 5/13/1931 | See Source »

...clock in a race to decide which boat is to meet the Yale championship crew on the Charles on May 23. The problem of determining the University Jayvee eight was complicated yesterday afternoon when Lawrence's boat edged that stroked by Armstrong in a long workout on the upper Charles, after it had been led by the latter craft in the three trials of last week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JAYVEE CREW TO BE CHOSEN ON BASIS OF TODAY'S RACE | 5/13/1931 | See Source »

...SQUARE CIRCLE-Denis Mackail- Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). Charles Dickens would have liked this book. It ought to be good enough for most people. Author Mackail has made himself the chronicler of London's "Tiverton Square" -one of those quiet upper-middle-class residential oases in the roaring metropolitan desert. Like Manhattan's Gramercy Park, the Square has a sacred enclosure to which only residents have a key, and within the pale stands the statue of some respectable and forgotten person. Children play there while their nurses gossip; from most of the Square's houses sober citizens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Round the Square | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

Races between the University and Freshman lightweight boats, slated for last Saturday, were called off on account of the weather, but the former, handicapped by gaps in the regular seatings, contended for seven minutes over sloppy water of the upper basin. Class coach Ed Brown announced last night that he had definitely picked his three class boats, which are to race this Wednesday to determine which shell would be selected to meet the Eli classmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JAYVEE CREW YET UNDECIDED AFTER WEEK OF PRACTICE | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

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