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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is my last appearance of the current football season and of course I am anxious to let you all have the full benefit of my prognosticating powers. As a matter of fact Mrs. Huey has staked my fortune on the outcome of my predictions today. Maybe you didn't know there was a Mrs. Huey; well strictly speaking you are right; really it is the Misses Huey, which is only an old Chinese way of saying that I like variety. But then I wouldn't expect my new countrymen to catch on to oriental customs yet so I will...

Author: By Dr. HU Flung huey, | Title: HUEY TURNS GREEK WITH DELPHIC STATEMENT ON TODAY'S GRIDIRON TILT | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

There is a man about whom little is known. It would be of benefit to every community to know what he has done for the youth of New Haven, Conn. His is the hand of the skillful potter. He moulds with kindness, understanding and sympathy. From that most delicate and difficult of fabrics he builds youth that emerge as men of merit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 18, 1929 | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...blue-eyed, brown-haired Helen Keller learned to talk by imitating what speech felt like, beneath her fingers. Aided by her devoted, lifelong teacher and guardian, Mrs. Macy* (nee Anne Mansfield Sullivan), the prodigious Keller has been a U. S. phenomenon since the age of seven, has won without benefit of favoritism a college degree cum laude (Radcliffe), has cinemacted, lectured, written books, corresponded in French, German and English with her international friends?the blind, deaf, sick, poor, grieving. Over radio-station WEAF she now "hears" music by lightfingering a wooden sounding-board. Professor Pierre Villey, blind himself, called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mencken's Huneker | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

Should the benefit of the Vagabond's rare experience be needed in the handling of specific problems he would be happy to be of help. There is no charge for this service. Just address him in care of the CRIMSON...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 11/16/1929 | See Source »

...certain amount of criticism in the past. One often hears that the very numbers of Rhodes Scholars at Oxford is a handicap to the individuals--that they can never really belong to the true Oxford, and conversely that foreign students in American colleges can never hope to get the benefit from their college years that American students receive. But the make-up of the Harvard Law School places every man on an equal footing. There is a minimum of social distinction, and an equal opportunity lies before native and foreigner alike. The fortunate combination of unexcelled facilities for study...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FROM EVERY NATION | 11/14/1929 | See Source »

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