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...five hundred students to spend eight minutes thus amounts to four thousand minutes wasted out of every hour; there are four morning hour classes, and four times four thousand is sixteen thousand minutes wasted a day; there are a minimum of one hundred class days a year, which gives one million six hundred minutes a year wasted by men with classes in Harvard Hall...
Both indoor and outdoor matches will be held against various college and regimental teams. Last year at the intercollegiates in New Haven Harvard Finished eighth in a field of sixteen, but expects to do much better this season according to Watts. The Yale match should be of unusual interest, since last year Harvard beat the Elis by one point in the outdoor meet but lost to them in the indoor match...
After voting dividends of $56,000 to last year's members, stockholders of the Harvard Cooperative Society nominated sixteen new officials for the organization at their annual meeting Wednesday. These include executive officers, stockholders, and other directors. As was the policy last year, the Coop will pay dividends on the basis of 7 per cent. for charge accounts and 9 per cent. on cash...
...Sixteen years ago a U. S. newspaperman, John Reed, wrote the first eyewitness account in English of Russia's Bolshevik revolution, in Ten Days that Shook the World. Brief, brisk, emphatically pro-Bolshevik, Reed's account won Lenin's approval, earned its author burial space in Moscow's place of honor in the Red Square, has served as a valuable source book for historians ever since. Last week another U. S. newspaperman, William Henry Chamberlin, for ten years Russian correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor, offered the first definitive history of the turbulent period, including...
...Louisans on art, organized a group known as the "New Hats." Said he: "I want to paint things that will knock holes in the walls." In the same mood he turned Communist. Impressed, St. Louis began giving him one-man shows, more prizes. Joe sent a picture to the Sixteen Cities Show in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, with an autobiography: "Joe Jones. Born St. Louis, 1909. Self-taught...