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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Citizens of the U. S. and Japan viewed with keenly awakened interest last week the possibility that the press rate between the U. S. and Japan may soon be reduced from 27c a word to lOc a word through the efforts of the United Press Associations cooperating with the Radio Corporation of America...
...Bickel, President of the United Press, called attention to the fact that ten years ago, when the press rate between Manhattan and Buenos Aires was 22c a word, the United Press carried an average of only 300 words a day to South America, whereas at the present rate of lOc a word it carries over 7,000 words a day. Should the Japanese Government ratify an agreement recently placed before it by the officials of the Radio Corporation of America the volume of news carried will almost certainly double many times. Since one of the chief obstacles...
...uniforms which the University team will wear this year are to undergo a decided change from those formerly used due to an injunction by Coach Mitchell. The time-honored custom of wearing plain shirts has been abandoned and the Crimson players will open their season with the word "Harvard" emblazoned on their breasts...
...hint of how the University baseball team will line up in its first game of the season against Boston University next Saturday was afforded last Saturday afternoon. It was announced at the same time that a change in uniforms of the players had been made and shirts with the word "Harvard" upon them will be substituted for the plain shirts hitherto worn...
...opposite spirit in modern poetry is exemplified in George Santayana. Here we have a man who in spite of the difficulties of his environment determined that he was going to live in this word and not apart from it, and who world and not apart from it, and who has succeeded in pushing up through those difficulties. The essential vigor of his life and character are reflected in his poetry, which I believe will be read long after Sandburg has faded into obscurity...