Word: ago
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three years ago when the Harvard crew was left in mid-season without a coach, E. J. Brown '96 performed a graceful service by taking over the instruction of the University boat. It was a critical time and his prompt acceptance of this new responsibility saved an otherwise difficult and embarrassing situation. He had been very successful as a class crew coach and nothing but gratitude was felt by Harvard men when he stepped into a breach which the shortness of the time before the Yale race made impossible to fill in any other...
...most notable visitor is undoubtedly Heathcote William Garrod, Professor of Poetry at Oxford since 1923 as he will hold the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry, endowed by the late C. C. Stillman '98 four years ago. This chair was not filled last year owing to the fact that University authorities were slow in seeking a man to fill it. Professor Garrod is believed to be the equal of the two previous holders of the chair, Professors Gilbert Murray and Eric M. D. Maclagan...
...opening of colleges is just about the same sort of ceremony it was a half score years ago. The same carrying of desks, reading lamps, books and dismantled beds across the campi (he remembered the plural of campus), the same tendency to wear clothing that's a little ahead of the latest word, the some old greetings being shouted from windows and doorways and the same searching for gullible freshmen on whom to practice the same old jokes...
Sadly, and not so reminiscently, the Roving Reporter went to the chapel steps to shed another tear. There were no bars in college 10 years ago. --The Boston Herald...
...eliminated 6-0, 6-0 by an unseeded entrant. The eight seeded players survived together to the quarterfinals. The finals were won by Clarence M. Charest, of Washington, D. C. who learned to play left-handed when he lost his right arm in a shooting accident twelve years ago. He defeated Jean Baptist Adore of Dallas...