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Word: alumni (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announcement in today's CRIMSON that a school of the theater backed by prominent Harvard alumni is definitely going to be established in Cambridge marks the first step that has been taken to provide for a continuance of Harvard's place in the American theater since the Forty Seven Workshop was discontinued. In former times that course furnished an impetus that has resulted in a great number of the most prominent figures in modern dramatic circles. Recently the possibility of reproducing men of equal caliber has seemed very remote owing to the absence of any training facilities. The new school...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SLEEPER WAKES | 12/6/1929 | See Source »

...news that Arnold Horween will return again next year as coach of the football team will be received with the greatest satisfaction by the undergraduate body and by the alumni. The announcement comes as a climax to a season which though not establishing any mythical championship may in every way be termed satisfactory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HORWEEN COMES BACK | 12/3/1929 | See Source »

...made well aware of their late benefactor's sausage plant.* So that St. Mark's boys may be further pork-conscious, each year on Founder's Day suckling pig is served. Eight or ten times in the school year Headmaster Thayer leaves school to marry his alumni. Imposing is his record at socialite weddings, for loyal St. Mark's grooms will have no other cleric. Literate St. Marksmen remember his fondness for Robert Burns, whose poetry he reads to favorites. On Sundays before Christmas he reads Dickens' Christmas Carol to Upper Formers, who crowd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Twill | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...James Carey of Princeton's Class of 1929 apologized to President John Grier Hibben of the University and offered damage payment for his classmates' vandalism of last June when they overturned and tried to abduct the Christian Student, allegorically righteous campus statue, perennially daubed by undergraduates and alumni with beer, flour, paint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fence and Offense | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...Harvard alumni who have attended football games in the Stadium this Fall have remarked on the unusual amount of building in progress on the Cambridge side of the river. They knew in a vague way that most of the work was part of Harvard's "house plan," but they had no conception of what they would see next Fall. The architects' drawings, published yesterday, of the two Houses now under construction, promise structures of impressive grandeur. Possibly in recognition of the beauty of the spire on the Business School library, they have planned towers for each of these...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 11/29/1929 | See Source »

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