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May and June are indeed the months of manna. When the warm weather arrives, colleges and universities the country over turn to considerations of general improvements, special equipment, new buildings, and graduate schools. Yielding to the impulse of the season, they spread their blankets, like the Israelites, and burn candles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LIBERAL UNIVERSITY | 6/18/1924 | See Source »

The University has gone seven years without a victory over Dartmouth in baseball, and the Hanoverians have of late cultivated a disagreeable habit of defeating the Crimson in football and hockey as well. This spring Harvard victories over Princeton and the Tigers' decisive verdict over the Green have given Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DARTMOUTH GAME A YALE PRELIMINARY | 6/10/1924 | See Source »

Prior to the Volstead act the colleges had their own code regarding drink. It was forbidden to bring intoxicants into university buildings. Drunkenness, if public, was "conduct unbecoming a scholar and a gentleman." Moreover, the man who was publicly intoxicated lost caste with his fellows. They made a nice distinction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 11/27/1923 | See Source »

The publication was a form of reply to the assertion that Mr. Hughes had no foreign policy. But there was another reason. Great Britain, France and the U. S. knew very well one another's attitude. But France had no intention of yielding to a reasonable solution of the reparations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stage Whisper | 11/5/1923 | See Source »

The heavy production of petroleum has affected the prices for crude oil less than that of gasoline. The latter is now lower than at any time since 1915; crude oil sold in that year at 60? a barrel, and is now $1.50 a barrel. This disparity results from the fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Gasoline Surplus | 10/1/1923 | See Source »

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