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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many institutions, including recently Yale itself, have made a definite effort to find proper accomodations for the undergraduates of visiting colleges and have made arrangements for their occupancy at very reasonable rates. The fact that there are several hotels in the Boston district does not in any way excuse Harvard from trying to find reasonably priced rooms in Cambridge for her visitors and giving these facilities adequate publicity. The high prices of the hotels and the definitely restricted number of their rooms place an obligation upon some Harvard organization to put at the disposal of her visitors some sort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROOM AND BOARDS | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

...decision was given by the Honorable J. A. Lowell '31, United States District Judge for Massachusetts, the Honorable R. P. Dietzman '05, Associate Justice of the Court of Appeals of Kentucky, and the Honorable F. T. Field, Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 11/22/1929 | See Source »

...judges who will sit in court tomorrow night are the Honorable J. A. Lowell '91, United States District Judge for Massachusetts, the Honorable R. P. Dietzman '05. Associate Justice of the Court of Appeals of Kentucky, and the Honorable F. T. Field, Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 11/20/1929 | See Source »

...Greater London there are 28 mayors of as many boroughs, but the Lord Mayor reigns over "The City," London's financial district, which Britons still call "the richest square mile on earth," ignoring Wall Street. The King-Emperor himself cannot enter "The City" without the Lord Mayor's permission. Neither can British troops. At any hour of day or night the Lord Mayor may have private audience with George V or access to the Tower of London. His diamond sceptre recalls that London was a sovereign city before England had a Throne. In return for all this glory, to which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pomp After Brass | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

From Ohio over the stormy Alleghenies to the District of Columbia, then to Long Island, a heavy trimotored Ford plane flew last week. Except at take-offs and landings the pilot scarcely ever touched the controls. A new device, a gyroscopic stabilizer similar to the stabilizers which help keep ships from rolling, kept the Ford on even keel through wind and fog. When gusts twisted the plane from its course, the stabilizer returned it automatically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Gyroscopic Stabilizer | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

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