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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House of Morgan was about to issue a counterblast against Governor Roosevelt or had decided to backtrack from the blast of adverse publicity. Neither appeared to be the case. They were received in a most easy manner by Morgan Partners Thomas W. Lamont and Harold Stanley. Mr. Lament, always popular with newsmen, issued the statement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUBLIC UTILITIES: Voice of Morgan | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...greatest questions confronting the deans of Harvard Yale, and Princeton is that of undergraduate-aviators. At Princeton, the students are no longer allowed to have airplanes. At Yale and Harvard, undergraduate flying clubs flourish under very lukewarm official approval. In both communities, the clubs have become exceedingly popular. Their members are adroit and expert aviators, but, for the most part, lamentable scholars. The academic mortality of members of the flying clubs far outruns that of the pedestrian students; and naturally enough, for the members spend so much of their time at the airports that they soon leave their studies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Dean William I. Nichols Writes in Atlantic Monthly on the Convention of Going to College | 9/28/1929 | See Source »

Freshmen selecting crew as their fall sport will meet in Smith Halls Common Room at 7 o'clock tonight where they will be addressed by the same speakers as at the University crew gathering. This sport is one of the most popular of fall activities necessary to fill the physical training requirements and it is hoped that as large a number of shells will be on the Charles River this year as in past seasons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FALL CREW SEASON WILL BEGIN TODAY | 9/26/1929 | See Source »

...wished that some time in the course might be spent on the non-Euclidian geometries of Lobachersky and Rieman, which have received so much popular notoriety, and upon a few other modern developments of geometry about which those who have studied some mathematics would like to be able to enlighten their friends...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONTINUED GUIDE HAS CRITICISM OF COURSES | 9/24/1929 | See Source »

Born. To Lady Diana Duff-Cooper, English socialite, the Nun in Max Reinhardt's The Miracle; a son; in London. Said the London Daily News: "She has caught the popular imagination by ranking first a happy marriage with its normal completion in the cradle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 23, 1929 | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

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