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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...complete program for tomorrow will be as follows: 10.15 o'clock, Miss Bernice V. Brown, Dean of Radcliffe College will extend greetings to the gathering; 10.20 o'clock, Royal Mecker, Organizer of Chinese Commission for Study of Social and Economic Questions, will speak on "China Today"; 11.30 o'clock, Raymond T. Rich, Field Secretary, Foreign Policy Association, will speak on "China's Special Tariff Conference"; 1 o'clock Round Table luncheon discussion; 2 o'clock, W. B. Thompson, of the Scripps Foundation for Research in Population Problems, will speak on "Overpopulation in the Oriend"; 3 o'clock, E. F. Wise...
What was considered one of the Mayor's best appointments was the naming of George V. McLaughlin as Police Commissioner. Mr. McLaughlin had been Superintendent of State banks. He is not a Tammany man, has held office under both Republicans and Democrats. A six-foot, 207-lb., muscular man, his type is indicated by the story of his first appearance at Police Headquarters?the day before he took office...
...Earl of Birkenhead's Law of Property. Admirers of Charles Dickens have often chuckled at his celebrated legal caricature, the suit of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce, which like time itself went on forever to the enrichment of generations of barristers and the utter ruin of their clients...
...Miller v. Einstein. Conclusions drawn from thousands of "etherdrift" experiments at Mt. Wilson Observatory (10,000 calculations in 1925 alone) were: 1) That, contrary to the assumptions of Dr. Albert Einstein, there is an all pervasive substance in the universe through which all matter moves; 2) That this substance, ether, has a motion imparted to it by moving matter (a motion similar to that of water following the stern of a moving ship). In the case of the earth, the ether is subject to a 95% drag, but slips away again 50%; 3) That the whole solar galaxy (group...
Last night the cast appeared for the first time before an audience in the annual Graduate Night performance. Mr. G. V. C. Lord, coach of this production as of those in previous years, expressed himself very well pleased with the work of his pupils. "In many ways I think this is the best show Pi Eta has ever put on", he said. "In other years we've done some pretty good work but I think everyone who gets a chance to see the "Fool for Scandal" will rate it higher than any of the others; higher even than "Peter Called...