Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Exeter Academy won the second annual Interscholastic Gymnastic. Meet held at the Hemenway Gymnasium on Saturday night. Soon after the meet started, it was evident that the affair was going to be practically a dual meet between Exeter and Brookline High, as all the first and second places were divided between these two schools. Captain F. G. Dusossoit of Brookline High was by far the best individual performer, winning 20 out of the 26 1-2 points that his team obtained. Next to Dusossoit came Captain J. M. White of Exeter who won a first and two second places, getting...
After dinner Major Henry Lee Higginson '52, president of the club, made a brief speech on the history of the movement which culminated in the union of Harvard and Technology. In commenting on the affair Major Higginson complimented the two institutions on their "team play" and added "I have never seen a selfish thought, or a selfish thing, any time, any where, in this matter...
...Yale, and Princeton have all dropped out because of Faculty restrictions or lack of time to properly rehearse the music, the remaining colleges have decided to go ahead with the project. It was thought for a time that without the support of the alumni of Yale and Princeton, the affair could not be made a financial success. But after a conference in Boston on Saturday, it was decided that the risk of monetary loss was far too small to warrant abandoning this year's meet. As the matter now stands, the participating clubs will be Harvard, Dartmouth, Columbia, and Pennsylvania...
...limited to 25. A. F. Pickernell '14 was elected president of the association and F. Graves '15, chairman of the executive committee. This committee will arrange for the first concert to be given in Carnegie Hall, New York City, on May 9, and will submit complete plans for the affair to all the colleges in the association within the next two weeks. The success of the undertaking will then depend on how completely these colleges enter into the proposal...
...members are at times admitted, it is a favor and not a right; and if the Union chooses to remain exclusive for the Junior Dance, that is entirely its prerogative. The only question is of the Committee's justification in selecting the building for a function supposedly a class affair, not one for Union members only...