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...Student Friendship Fund. It hopes form more complete information before action is taken by the Student Council. It does, however, welcome this opportunity to express what it feels is the official missionary attitude of Harvard University and to invite the cooperation of all who believe in a non-partisan attitude; based on international thinking, international friendship and international cooperation. Robert M. Mears '27, Chairman, The Harvard Mission...
...Sarah Lawrence College would open in 1928 for some 250 young ladies. To make them appreciate their opportunities, tuition would be $1,500 per annum (no expenses to be borne by endowment). They would be instructed in liberal arts only-to inculcate interest in right social behavior, non-sectarian religion, non-partisan politics, good morals and the esthetic consumption of leisure hours by useful and becoming "hob-bies." These aims, it was judged, could be compassed in two years and the New York Board of Regents had been persuaded to issue an irregular* charter, for the first "junior college...
...Murray. Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford who has been lecturing at the University this fall, and who is returning to England. The usual admission charges will be made to the meeting, with the exception of 1500 free tickets, which may be obtained at either the League of Nations Non-Partisan Association, 40 Mt. Vernon Street, or the Federation of Churches, 4 Park Street...
Lynn J. Frazier, 52, Senator from North Dakota, slow-moving, slow-speaking, is a real dirt farmer. He owns 480 acres of wheat in the Red River Valley and has never had a crop failure. In 1916 the embattled farmers and the Non-Partisan League elected him Governor of North Dakota. His round face beamed like a child with a new puzzle, but the farmers were pleased, so they sent him to the Senate in 1923. A radical at Washington, he is just a good, big farmer* out in the Red River Valley. Republicans who ousted him from the regular...
Then there was Governess Ross who talked politics rather than birth control. She said that she had taken her defeat for re-election "like a woman." Although the League of Women Voters is a non-partisan organization, yet there was much boom-business for Nellie Tayloe Ross as 1928 Democratic candidate for Vice President. Had not Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith said that she typified "the woman citizen at her best...