Word: allens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Announcement was made yesterday that R. G. Allen '26 will be head usher for the annual spring dance of the Union, which will be held Friday from 9 to 2 o'clock. Tickets, limited to 500, are now on sale at the Union news stand at $2.25 a person. Music for the dance will be by Moynahan's Orchestra...
After the ballots had been counted and the decision rendered in the debate in Sanders Theatre, Hon. F. G. Allen, President of the Masachusetts Senate, announced Paul Whitcomb Williams, of New Bedford, as winner of the Coolidge Debating Prize of $100 awarded annually to the best University speaker in the trial debates for the Triangular contest...
...Allen, who was the Chairman of the evening, introduced J. B. Darby of Princeton as the first speaker for the affirmative after a brief preliminary address and reading of the question. Darby made it clear in the beginning that the affirmative agreed with the negative in two respects; first that limitation of enrolment was necessary, and second that they recognized that scholastic attainments were the preliminary test. "But we don't want grinds and bookworms," said Darby, "but leaders with personality and initiative, and a single scholastic standard is no criterion of the worth of men who possess these characteristics...
...Allen Will Preside...
...Frank G. Allen, President of the Massachusetts Senate, will be chairman of the evening, and the judges are Dean Harry Seymour Ross of Emerson College, Professor David Vaughan, of the Boston University School of Theology, and James T. Williams Jr., Editor of the Boston Transcript. Members of the Freshman Discussion Club will act as ushers, and the visiting team will be entertained by members of the Student Council...