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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attendance has fallen off considerably since the war, the camp formerly having a usual enrolment of 150 to 175 students. It is now being operated with a smaller number of men, 40 being the average established during the last few years. These students are recruited about equally from the College and the Engineering School. June 23 is the day set for the opening of this summer's activities and the camp will then be in session until August 19 Students should register at Pierce 223 or III before June...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IMPROVEMENTS TO MARK 1927 ENGINEERING CAMP | 6/2/1927 | See Source »

...leading Fairhaven by three points. Only nine events, including a half mile relay race, are listed, and individual entrants are allowed to compete only in one track and one field event and the relay. A 12 pound shot putt is the one weight event held, and instead of the usual hurdle events a special 120 yard low hurdle race is run off. The mile and two mile runs are also missing on the schedule of events...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 480 ATHLETES CONTEND FOR HIGH SCHOOL TITLE | 6/1/1927 | See Source »

Only 11 men will be elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society this June instead of the usual 15 because of a misunderstanding in the fall elections...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PHI BETA KAPPA TO ELECT 11 MEMBERS THIS MONTH | 6/1/1927 | See Source »

...charge of those elections that an amendment to the constitution proposed last spring, which would make all men receiving magna cum laude honors automatic members had passed, when in reality it, had failed. Under this impression 34 men were elected to the Society last fall instead of the usual 30. The standing of these our men thus chosen will not be affected but no such elections will be made in the future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PHI BETA KAPPA TO ELECT 11 MEMBERS THIS MONTH | 6/1/1927 | See Source »

Lawyer Clarence Darrow, whose Lake Placid address partook of the fervor of a national legend, often addresses Negroes, with a fervor entirely his own. Many a member of the John Brown pilgrimage went to hear Mr. Darrow, in Philadelphia, make his usual speech about the "race" people. In this speech Mr. Darrow says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEGROES: At Lake Placid | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

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