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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...preliminary bouts in the sectional tryouts for the Olympic team, in which several Harvard men are entered, will start at 2 o'clock this afternoon at the Cambridge Y...
...series of tryouts is one of twenty similar ones being held throughout the country during the coming month. Today's contestants compose the leading wrestlers in the colleges, the Y. M. C. A.'s and the A. A. U. clubs of the N. E. A. A. A. U. and Connecticut...
Vincent Vigoroux, 15, youngest editor and publisher in the U. S., whose paper is The Little Acorn of New Rochelle, N. Y., and 1,150 editors of high school papers throughout the land, attended the annual convention of the Columbia Scholastic Press Association in Manhattan last week, saw how linotype machines were made, visited plants of New York City newspapers, heard President Karl August Bickel of the United Press say: "The day of the hardboiled, cynical reporter with a bottle of whiskey in one pocket, and an American Mercury in the other, has passed. Ideals are higher now. . . . This condition...
...pneumonia; at his home in Chesterton, Md. Starting his career as a bicycle tinker in Kokomo, Ind., Maxwell, with two others, Elmer Apperson and Elwood Haynes, built the first automobile manufactured in the U. S. (now stabled in the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.). His plant at Tarrytown, N. Y., founded in 1904, became a thriving automobile centre, turned out the first cars (Maxwell-Briscoe) at the $500 mark. Maxwell's large Detroit works were used by bankers, who acquired control of the business during the pleasure car depression of the early part of the War, as a nucleus...
Professor W. Y. Elliott, of the department of Government, commenting upon the CRIMSON poll, said yesterday, "I heartily endorse the plan. Anything that encourages the interest of students in national affairs is valuable...