Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington last week arrived nine very polite little Japanese gentlemen. Delegates to the London naval parley, they had stopped off on their way there to discuss with President Hoover, Statesman Stimson and William Richards Castle, the President's new ambassador to their country (see col. 3) Japan's devices, desires and designs at the coming conference. President Hoover honored them with a White House dinner, hoped to reach a preliminary agreement with them on the naval problems ahead...
Corruption. When he was Governor of Massachusetts (1925-29), Alvan Tufts Fuller charged that Boston's Mayor Malcolm E. Nichols delayed subway construction to let his friends buy up the right-of-way, then sell it to the city at exorbitant prices. He named specific instances, said: "The people of Boston are being systematically robbed by a group of ... politicians." He once referred to the Mayor as "in his usual irresponsible condition...
From this site Professor Lake will go to the Monastery of St. Catherine to pursue his researches in Biblical manuscripts while Professor Blake returns to the United States by way of Bulgaria and Roumania where he expects to carry on certain negotiations on behalf of the Harvard College Library. Professor Lake will be away until the fall. Professor Blake will return to Cambridge about the first of April...
There has been no official call for candidates for the sport, as the new swimming pool will in all probability not be ready before the first of March. However, Harold Ulen, who is to coach the Harvard swimming team when the sport gets under way here next year, has had 20 men under his charge this fall and has been drilling them in fundamentals in the Big Tree swimming pool on Holyoke Street. In this way he is laying a foundation for next year when swimming becomes a regular sport for Harvard...
Admittedly these are small matters and as was pointed out in the earlier editorial they are only cited to show which way the wind blows. By observing the same straws which but lately showed such a strong breeze setting in from the shores of Albion, it is now possible to report that storm warnings seem no longer necessary...