Word: yesterdays
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Midst the hodge-podge of football over-emphasis and larger stadiums, fraternity scandals and college life of the movie type, the report of the Harmon Foundation, made public yesterday, strikes a particularly encouraging note to the proponents of college as a place of study...
Among gifts made to several institutions by Chester DeWitt Pugsley, '86, vice-president of the Westchester County National Bank, of Peekskill, New York, 'was one, it became known yesterday, of $10,000 to the Harvard Law School, to be used for research in the codification of international law. Among the other recipients are Princeton University, Earlham College of Indiana, and the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. This is Pugsley's second gift to the Law School this year. On November 14, he established the John Harvey Gregory Trust, consisting of an initial grant of $400,000. Sixty...
...informal meeting of amateur hockey coaches and officials held at the Harvard Club in Boston yesterday definite steps were taken towards having a uniform code of rules and uniform officiating at amateur hockey games this winter. The rules, as they are now in operation, were explained by A. W. Prettyman, of Hamilton College, Chairman of the Intercollegiate Ice Hockey Rules Committee, following which the coaches and referees present reached a definite agreement as to the interpretation of the rules...
Occupying a prominent position on the "Index" is the British philosopher's. "What I Believe." That the appearance of Mr. Russell at Symphony Hall yesterday occasioned no great turmoil among the officially righteous brings the unpredictable actions of the censors into sharper relief. The probable contents of a lecture on the faith of an unbeliever should be sufficiently apparent. But no action was taken to restrain the famous philosopher from corrupting Boston's intelligentsia...
Further information concerning the organization of the two Houses was given out yesterday at University Hall as the result of the flood of questions received by the administration on various points not previously covered. The most typical queries have been tabulated and with the respective answers were made public by the administrators of the Houses as follows...