Word: alan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obtain permission to submit the Fogg picture as evidence, it was necessary to call up the Louvre Museum in Paris by trans-oceanic telephone. At 1 o'clock the important negative left Boston, and will be offered today by Alan Burroughs '20, X-ray expert and head of the identification department at the Fogg...
...Alan Judge Campbell '32 of Sugar Valley, Georgia was elected Captain of the Freshman wrestling team yesterday at a meeting of members of the squad who have participated in two meets. Campbell wrestles in the 135-pound class, and has won one match and lost one thus far this season...
With perfect imperturbability Pearl assured him of the worst. Jack, scion of the aristocratic family Frith-Walter, was standing for Parliament-as Labor candidate. Alan was quite as shocked as Pearl. But she wasn't leaving Jack? Certainly. Divorce? Certainly. Vanished Alan's benignity, Wordsworth's philosophy...
...there were distractions: some young moderns noisily ordering drinks; an old "hag-beauty" was noisily bullying her husband; and between them ran the rumor of a typical French railway accident up the line. Alan Frith-Walter's benignity was therefore disturbed-only to be completely upheaved at the sight of Pearl. Why was she on the Rome express, why had he not known of her trip, why was his son not with her? Conjugal difficulties? Scandal in the Frith-Walter family...
...types, both social and intellectual, are certainly represented among the students who are following any broad field of knowledge. But it is difficult to see how active intellectual curiosity can be aroused among undergraduates, naturally tending toward diffusion of effort, without some specification, and consequently narrowing, of interest. Alan R. Sweezy...