Word: allens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been handed down as true that when Edgar Allen Poe was a cadet, he furnished the surprise element in the life of the Corps. On one occasion it was announced that white gloves would be worn to the next formation. Cadet Poe complied with orders and wore white gloves--and nothing else...
...impressive ceremony on Boston Common tomorrow morning, Governor Allen will present to the West Point Cadets twelve gold spear heads, adorned with the seal of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on one side and that of the United States on the other, as a gift of the State Senate to the United States Military Academy. These spear heads are designed to be used on the company guidons, and are about eight inches long and beautifully designed with an attractice dull finish...
Detraining, the cadets will form and march from the railroad station to Boston Common for the review by Gov. Allen, Maj.-Gen. Preston Brown, Maj.-Gen. Smith, superintendent of West Point; Mayor Nichols and Mayor Quinn of Cambridge. The column will proceed along Huntington Avenue to Dartmouth Street, to Beacon Street, and thence to the Common, entering at the Charles Street-Beacon Street gate...
...meeting of the Intercollegiate Fencing Association held in New York on Sunday. Harvard was represented by H. W. Clark '23, assistant graduate manager of athletics, and J. D. Allen '31, manager of this year's foil men. Fourteen other colleges in the east sent their representatives to this conference, which was called to discuss proposed changes in the rules and to fix the date for the Intercollegiate meet...
...Senator Allen, publicity chief of the Hoover campaign, "told me I ought to go out and make Hoover campaign speeches," revealed Shearer. Retorted the Senator: "I wanted to get rid of you around publicity headquarters...