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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Budget system for the collection of funds to cover the various Student Council, class, and Phillips Brooks House Association expenses was inaugurated yesterday by the Freshmen. The amount collected from 1930 was sufficient to suggest the complete success of the scheme provided the upper three classes give in similar proportion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1930 RESPONDS TO DRIVE FOR BUDGET | 9/24/1926 | See Source »

...Budget Table during registration. Bills will be sent out to those who do not care to pay immediately at the end of November of this year. The funds and their collection will be in the hands of the Treasurer of the Student Council and the treasurers of the upper classes, these four forming a Finance Committee with the first named acting as chairman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COUNCIL LAUNCHES DRIVE FOR BUDGET | 9/23/1926 | See Source »

...tampered with the gas supply, yet the gas flame was made to flare up, turn from yellow to blue and roar. Dr. Hall explained that seven miles away, in the General Electric Co.'s laboratory, Charles Kellogg, famed "bird man," was broadcasting notes from the phenomenal upper register of his voice. The vibrations, 15,000 to 20,000 per second, transmitted by radio, affected the gas flame as would the vibrations set up by a tuning fork in the experiment familiar to physics students. Sufficiently intense vibrations would have extinguished the flame. The color change resulted merely from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: High Note | 9/20/1926 | See Source »

...least squeamish about devouring their peaceful relatives. In time, one sensible clan specialized in defense, going always on all fours, with armor plate on a humpy back and a flange of skull spread back fanwise to protect the neck. On the forehead grew three horns; the upper lip hardened and hooked downward in a terrible beak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Non-Fiction | 9/13/1926 | See Source »

...under whom Sun fought as a general only last year) and Chang have momentarily the upper hand in China. But what will happen in a year, a month, a week? Can Chang and Wu resist the great encircling movement financed by Soviet Russia, the teeth of which are Feng's armies in the north and the Cantonese Bolsheviks in the south...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Both Ends Against the Middle | 9/6/1926 | See Source »

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