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Following the usual procedure in triangular debates, each institution will send two teams to the rostrum, one speaking at home while the other will speak on a foreign platform. In this case, the orators defending the affirmative side of the question will travel. The Crimson will engage the Brown speakers at Cambridge and Wesleyan at Middletown, Connecticut...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLANS ANNOUNCED FOR FIRST LEAGUE DEBATE | 1/25/1927 | See Source »

...Islamic-Nationalist riots, recently suppressed in Java (TIME, Nov. 22) burst out again last week in Sumatra. Dutch troops of the Netherlandic East Indies forces arrested 550 rioters at Siloengkang, shot 100. As usual the Dutch press, ignorantly or maliciously, referred to the malcontents as "Communists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NETHERLANDS: Blood of Islam | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

...Bonnie is the usual musical comedy unusually well done. Its best features: the acting of Dorothy Burgess who strives seriously to smile success through this her first musical comedy role; an excellently trained chorus; the song " 'Cross the River from Queens." The plot: a Dry millionaire soap manufacturer, arrested in a night club, switches to the Wets after a month in jail, with such success that he is elected to Congress, and his daughter and pet office girl are free to marry their respective tenors. Bide Dudley (dramatic critic of the N. Y. Evening World) and Louis Simon (actor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Jan. 24, 1927 | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

Following its usual custom, the Company has arranged a special performance for "Harvard Night," on February 3. "La Cena Delle Beffe" will be the presentation. Although widely known in its literary and dramatic aspects, it has never been sung in Boston. This great and colorful music drama of Florence in the days of Lorenzo the Magnificent will be remembered as the vehicle in which John and Lionel Barrymore established an epoch-making success under the title "The Jest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Distinguished Artists, Well-Rounded Program Again in Boston--Opens With "Aida" | 1/21/1927 | See Source »

...vote will be carried on as usual with the preferential type of ballot. Voters must designate in the space opposite the candidates names on the ballot their first, second, third, and in the case of addition their consecutive choices. Every candidate for office must be voted on or the ballots will be thrown out. Signatures will be required on the ballots but will be regarded as confidential...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SET DATE FOR '30 CLASS ELECTIONS | 1/19/1927 | See Source »

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