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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...principal figure of the story is Bachelet, the soldier's father, admirably played by Mr. Thomas Shearer. In the prologue we see him as an obscure but sincere character--still a clerk after a lifetime in his office spent watching his contemporaries promoted over him by the use of influence. The war and its injustice are intolerable to him. Then the news of his son's heroic death comes to him, and everything seems to have gone out of his life. We next see him ten years later--his grief has gone, his son is no longer a human...

Author: By R. N. G., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/10/1927 | See Source »

...International Council will meet tonight at 8 o'clock in Phillips Brooks House. The subject will be "Shall the Council endorse the use of Esperanto as an International Language?" Favoring the adoption of Esperanto it is to be said that an international language would be of great value, removing the present waste of time, money and effort in learning many languages. One universal language could be made to serve in place of the many tongues now spoken...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTERNATIONAL GROUP DISCUSSES ESPERANTO | 12/8/1927 | See Source »

...International Council will meet tomorrow at 8 o'clock in Phillips Brooks House. The subject will be "Shall the Council endorse the use of Esperanto as an International Language?" All students of the University are invited to attend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: International Council Meets Tomorrow | 12/7/1927 | See Source »

...courses that will adopt the reading period in this department are: Zoology 4, 5, 6a, 6b, 7a, 7c, and 17, Laboratory work in Zoology 5 will continue, but its constant supervision will be replaced by occasional conferences. Zoology 3 is not considered far enough advanced to use most profitably the Reading Period, nor are the elementary courses Biology A and Zoology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Science Departments Give Plans for Reading Period | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

Professor Baxter would make no prediction about the future of the Reading Period in his department. As there are no precedents to follow, the use of the Reading Period in Chemistry will probably depend to a large extent upon the result of its first application...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Science Departments Give Plans for Reading Period | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

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