Word: 131st
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most brilliant affairs of the season. The guests did not begin to arrive, at the Foot-Lights Club in West 131st Street, until well after midnight. When they did come, they were the elite- Pope B. Billups, candidate for Judge; Dr. Alain Locke, professor of philosophy at Howard University; Actress Gertrude Saunders, Composer Ford Dabney and many another Harlem notable-fashionable Dr. H. Binga Dismond, for example, and ¶ Franklin Carr, the mortician. The ten-course dinner had been cooked by Irvin ¶ Miller himself, president of the Foot-Lights Club and of Miller Productions, Inc., brother of Flournoy...
...Amherst, Mass., Amherst College entered upon its 104th year with John Coolidge, son of President Calvin Coolidge, one of 210 freshmen with a few words from Acting President and President-elect George D. Olds, concerning changes in Amherst's faculty, curriculum, landscape. At Williamstown, Mass., the 131st year of Williams College began when President Harry A. Garfield opened a service in Thompson Memorial Chapel, reminded his hearers that each of them was a responsible part of the collegiate whole. At South Hadley, Mass., President Mary E. Woolley launched Mount Holyoke College upon its 87th year by ruminating upon womankind...