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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lacking in news value and human interest though a convention of deans may be, it no doubt offers more real opportunity for interchange of ideas and the promotion of friendship than many a football classic or track meet. Much of present day college administration centers in the dean's office, and it is here that most measures which directly affect the student body have their origin. Anything, therefore, which brings the occupants of these key positions together ought also to result in a closer coordination of the aims and methods of the colleges involved. During today and tomorrow Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEANS FOREGATHER | 5/17/1929 | See Source »

...clock this afternoon the University lacrosse team will clash with the Syracuse twelve in what promises to be the lacrosse classic of the season. The game will be played on the field behind the Business School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON LACROSSE TEAM CLASHES WITH SYRACUSE | 5/11/1929 | See Source »

...gathered to talk of Washington's development as a beautiful city, to pledge allegiance to a capital building program now well under way. Speeches were made. Models of new Government buildings were admiringly examined. A cinema of the capital's rude start, its ragged growth, its sudden bursts of classic beauty, its future nobility, was shown. This story was told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Federal City | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...Classic in design, the building rose there, squarely blocking the view between the White House and the Capitol along Pennsylvania Avenue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Federal City | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...years the U. S. Supreme Court has sat in a room in the Capitol less impressive than many a county court room. Cramped in between House and Senate, the Justices lack adequate offices, take their cases home to work on. A new Supreme Court Building (ten millions) of classic lines will soon rise opposite the Capitol, north of the Library of Congress. To make room for this new structure the "Old Capitol"?in which Congress sat after the 1814 fire, in which Civil War prisoners were housed, in which the National Woman's Party now has its headquarters?must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Federal City | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

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