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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These icebergs rise in the Baffin Bay region, far north in the Arctic. Wellknown Arctic explorers declare that it takes about 100 years or more for these huge masses to form in the glacier fields, and it is because these bergs are so solidly formed in rock-like strata that it is so difficult to demolish them. It takes the bergs about one year to drift down from Baffin Bay to the Northern area of the Banks. Their length at this time averages about five city blocks, while their height runs from 200 to 300 feet. It was calculated that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Law Student Tells of Experiences With Icebergs | 10/11/1927 | See Source »

...team that will play at Myopia tomorrow will be: 1 G. H. Irving '27, 2 J. P: Cotton '29, 3 W. H. White '28, 4 J. P. Mandell '29. Harry N. Easton, the wellknown player, will be on the Myopia team, which promises to offer stiff opposition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD POLO TEAM PLAYS AT MYOPIA THIS AFTERNOON | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

...decisive margin of 803 votes to 376, an audience in Baltimore recently acknowledged the forensic triumph of Lincoln University of Pennsylvania over Oxford. Quite a triumph indeed, for a small and relatively unheard of institution to defeat the wellknown Britishers, and in itself a fact worth passing notice. But in addition it involves facts of far greater import. The afore-mentioned audience happened to be composed to the extent of ninety-five percent, of colored listeners, the debaters of Linclon University were themselves colored, and the debate was held in the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church. This is indeed something...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DISSIPATING A MYTH | 12/21/1926 | See Source »

...been tentatively announced that Mr. Norman Hapgood '90, wellknown author and editor, will speak at the Union the night of Thursday, October 16. The subject of his address has not been definitely decided, but he is expected to speak in support of Mr. La Follette and the Progressive platform...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FORMER DANISH MINISTER TO TAKE UNION PLATFORM | 10/7/1924 | See Source »

...also seen service as a professional journalist on the staff of a wellknown Boston daily, as correspondent for various New York papers, and as a literary contributor to current periodicals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN TO PUBLISH SECOND BOOK OF VERSE | 10/1/1924 | See Source »

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