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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...falling figures were partially accounted for by The Living Church Annual, thus: ''It should be remembered that the attempt to count membership on a basis of baptized persons instead of communicants goes back only two years, and the reports for the previous years included estimates in a number of places, the exact record not being available . . . the decrease shown this year is probably not an actual decrease, but rather a closer approximation to exact figures...
...purpose of this work is not to produce good mechanics, but to develop a first rate group of leaders in various fields. Professional ambition will be sought for in any candidates for the Institute; previous education is to mean very little in the selection of the students, provided they have a certain amount of innate ability combined with intellectual curiosity and aspiration...
...afternoon, previous to the University game, the Freshman basketball team will open its season in a contest with the M. I. T. first year men. This game is to be in the Freshman Gymnasium...
...Vonckx '31 yesterday afternoon won the 35 pound weight in the tall University Handicap Meet. As in previous years, all the other events of this meet were held at the end of October while this was postponed for about a month. G. F. Bennett '33 took second place, while Murdock Finlayson '32 came in third...
...Ambassador to Turkey Joseph Clark Grew. Succeeding Laura Harlan as social secretary to the White House in the Coolidge Administration, he held that delicate post until its duties were transferred to a division of protocol in the state department. Attaché Moffat's most important previous diplomatic work was with the U. S. Legation in Warsaw during Soviet Russia's brief attempt to conquer Poland in 1920-days that brought him in touch with Herbert Hoover and Cardinal Achille Ratti, now Pope Pius XI. In a dingy Geneva office, proudly titled the Treaty Registration Room of the League...