Today -100: April 10, 1923: Of dorms, makeup, relaxed throats, inhuman atrocities, masks, and fox trotting

Harvard University’s Board of Overseers overturns Pres. A. Lawrence Lowell’s ban on black students living in the freshman dorms and affirms that admissions should not discriminate on the basis of race or religion (i.e., Jewish quotas).

In other front-page education news, the Arkansas Supreme Court rules that schools can bar girl students wearing makeup.

What the hell is a “relaxed throat?” Anyway, it’s what British Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law supposedly has (he actually has throat cancer), which just made it impossible for anyone to hear him during Prime Minister’s Questions. So there’s talk, again, of him resigning. Which he won’t. (Also, the Tories have lost 5 by-elections in a row.)

Russia seizes synagogues to turn them into workingmen’s clubs. It plans to seize all of them.

The French expel striking German railroad workers from their homes, evidently on ten minutes’ notice, or as Pres. Ebert puts it, “the new inhuman atrocity...” (inhuman atrocities are the worst kind) “...of the French military forces against women and children driven from their homes by the African soldiery.”

Minnesota and Iowa enact laws against wearing masks, you know, like the Klan does.

The US Supreme Court overturns the District of Columbia’s minimum wage for women & female children, calling it discriminatory and a violation of the right of contract and anyway women don’t even need this because they’re all equal now.

The new dance record is 50 hours, a Miss Alma Cummings, who outlasts 7 partners. Mostly fox-trotting.

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