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...bought the Virgin Islands, once famed as a buccaneer's resort, from Denmark for $25,000,000 in 1917 when it was feared Germany would establish a submarine base there. Until last week they were a neglected appendage of the Navy Department which used them as a coaling base. Their transfer to civil government by President Hoover was generally regarded as the first step in a program to demilitarize U. S. insular possessions...
...Society of the Sigma Xi, national scientific honor society, will hold a formal installation by the national officers in the Faculty Room of University Hall at 4.30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, to establish a Harvard chapter. In the evening at 7 o'clock a dinner will be given in the Harvard Union, at which Professor Harlow Shapley, of the Harvard Observatory, who recently was awarded the American Society of Arts and Sciences' medal for great scientific achievement, will preside, and at which Professor G. W. Stewart, national president of the Society of the Sigma Xi, President Lowell...
...Michigan next month voters will pass on a proposition to re-establish the death penalty, dead a century in that State...
March 24?International agricultural parley; at Paris. Purpose: to establish first international bank (capital, $9,650,000) for agricultural credit clearing...
...group of scholars met at Yale two years ago to consider the plan. Within the next two years the work for Southern New England is expected to be completed. A questionnaire has been prepared through which field workers will collect characteristic facts of pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary, to establish dialectic differences. In addition speech records will be taken...