Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...south entrance of Memorial, facing Cambridge Street, will be the only one open during the dance. Automobiles will approach it from East to West and may be parked around the Delta. The ladies' coat room is in the right after entering, while the men may check their things at the farther end of the transept. The patronesses will receive at the left of the centre entrance to the main hall...
There has always been an abyss between the life, and the thought and the ideals of the eastern and the western civilizations. It has grown wider with the passing of the centuries. The material conflict between the East and the West--the first reaching out of the tendrils of empire on the one side, and the quiet acceptance of the inevitable, in appearance, at least, on the other--has only emphasized the space that still separates the ideas of the two. The abyss has seemed unbridgeable...
...part of the book is infinitely condensed. It condenses the tragedy of half the world in the story of the legal trial and imprisonment of one man. It tells the story of the leader of the irreconcilable East, who was crushed--consciously, inevitably, by the exigencies of the imperial West. It is not a tragedy of blood, anger, and revolution--it is a greater tragedy of mind, soul, and lack of understanding. Although Gandhi is still alive in prison, his life story has been told--as Napoleon's was told after Waterloo, as Jesus's was after Calvary. All through...
...will face West Point in the fencing meet Saturday were selected yesterday after tryouts. Captain E. H. Lane '24, E. L. Lane '24, Roland Fleer '24 and R. A. Durham '25 will handle the foils. The two epee men will be F. W. Saunders '24 and Lendon Snedeker...
Theodore Harwood Dillon, a graduate of West Point, has been chosen to occupy the newly created chair of Professor of Public Utility Management in the University Business School. Mr. Dillon comes to the University from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a brilliant record of accomplishment in various parts of the world. He was assistant-director of public-works in Cuba from 1908 to 1910, did topographical work in the Philippines 1910-11, and was director of the Panama Railroad 1915 to 1917. During the war he was commissioned a Colonel in the Regular Army, and was awarded...