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...clock they follow the graduates and the members of the lower classes to the Stadium where E. F. Clark Jr. '28 will give the Ivy oration. Three will also be cheering by the graduate classes, presentation of the Senior class banner to 1931, singing of "Fair Harvard" and the confetti battle...
Troops marching under the banner of the Nanking Nationalist Government quietly occupied Peking, last week, but in such curious fashion that no man could say with certainty in whose hands the city actually lay. It had previously been evacuated (TIME, June 11) by the great War Lord Chang Tso-lin, who retired to Mukden, Manchuria, and lay there, last week, nigh to death from wounds inflicted by an assassin's bomb...
...still further misguided the Afric blacks into believing the absurd bit of blather that the new flag would mean their enslavement. Fired by this preposterous notion, the natives massed and howled protests against what they called the "coffin flag." Shouting "Away with Slavery!" they tore down the new banner in numerous instances. Meanwhile 100% British Islanders drove through Johannesburg and Cape Town, waving the Union Jack and shouting: "We were born under this flag and we want no other...
Thereafter English Comrade James Button claimed that 13 cells have been established in the British Navy; and French Comrade Barbrot not only credited himself and colleagues with a score of 14, but said that in case of need the Communist banner could be hoisted on no less than ten French warships...
Stampeding, snake-dancing. The Star-Spangled Banner, The Sidewalks of New York, the steam-roller--all the accouterments of the Great Deadlock of 1924 found their way into New Lecture Hall for two evenings, and Harvard saw a convention that proved to be a remarkable facsimile of the Democratic meeting four years ago. Not only in the superficial aspects of cheering delegates and persistent, singing did the gathering at Cambridge resemble its national predecessor; but, even as the party was obliged to compromise in 1924, so did the mark convention compromise last evening...