Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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This incident and the fire in Claverly Hall a few weeks ago bring the question of adequate fire protection for University property into sharper relief. Many of the students in the Gold Coast dormitory slumbered peacefully through the disturbance. The flames at Soldiers Field Tuesday had completely demolished the frame of the building and with it all hopes of saving it long before reenforcements arriving from nearby districts had pushed their way through the huge gathering assembled from all over Cambridge. Had the fire on Mt. Auburn Street had such a start, the outcome would have been a holocaust...
Presented with an opportunity to bring the whole vexing question to a head in one bold stroke, the Commission has responded so far only with temporizing and obvious recommendations. If there is to be a Prohibition law of any kind effectively enforced, this issue must be faced sooner or later and the investigation of the Wickersham Commission offers an excellent way to begin...
When interviewed on the subject a few weeks ago, Mr. Bingham while admitting his own interest in the sport, said that any proposals for a boxing team to represent the University must come from the undergraduate body, evidently having in mind the lassitude with which the students greeted the question two years ago. The number of men engaged regularly in the sport, the additional facilities for boxing in the new gymnasium, and the recent communications between Harvard and Yale regarding the possibility of an intercollegiate contest have focussed much attention on the advisability of inaugurating a team...
...personal tastes. He is of course amusing, brilliant and didactic, and sometimes all three at once. But in a play so well known it is hardly justifiable to devote much space to its merits and defects. The idiosyncrasies of the author are inevitable and at times even soporific; the question for discussion lies rather in the art of the actors...
Trials for places on the Freshman Debating Team will be held in Holden Chapel this afternoon at 4 o'clock; according to an announcement made yesterday by the Harvard Debating Council. Candidates will speak for five minutes on the question: "Resolved, That the 'Baby Volstead Act' in Massachusetts be repealed...