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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cabinet members must soon report on their year's work. Last week, busy with his report, Secretary of War Davis could not help brimming over about one of his subsidiary concerns, the Inland Waterways Corp. This Federal company operates barge lines on the Warrior River (Alabama) and on upper and lower reaches, of the Mississippi. It showed a $277,782 net income for nine 1928 months, compared to $45,507 at the same time last year...
...combined field of History, Government and Economics is by far the largest in the College, with 775 members of the three upper classes enroled. It has shown a gradual though steady gain since 1926. Below the divisions of Economics and English ranks as the third largest field History, with 233 concentrators. The combined field of Modern Languages, containing the Romance Languages, German and English, numbers 634 men, a decided drop from its 1926 total...
...author and composer of "This Year of Grace" Mr. Noel Coward last night was a benefaction. His songs and satires were of an upper class, ranging from competent to superlative, and the fleet manner in which they sped along made Mr. Cochran's London revue one of the merriest, of its closet type. Mr. Coward was not, however, so brilliant as a musical comedian. Unendowed with the impish attributes of a clown, his efforts were slightly laborious, and he sang in a weedy voice and danced with small facility. But when he grew dramatic in a tragic number reminiscent...
...entangling alliances have met with a rude neglect. In spite of the theory that college men should he allowed to produce their own salvation without supervision from above, a certain protection should still be allowed the younger of them from allurement that no longer tempts burnt children in the upper classes, Humanitarianism, even if unsupported by a common love of parents for offspring, should prompt the amalgamated parents of Boston ton consider the feelings of the mothers and fathers of Harvard sons. Too often this latter, less prominent group tardily discovers that an earnest devotion to the Boston side...
...move toward wider, cutting privileges at Yale, recently initiated by the Student Council, culminated yesterday in the granting of unlimited cuts to all honor men in the three upper classes. Harvard students will recognize in this decision the establishment at New Haven of a modified Dean's List...