Word: alumni
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Today was set aside especially for the Graduate Schools of the University, and was known as Graduate School Day. Special luncheons for the alumni of the Schools of Law, Architecture, Arts and Sciences, and other graduate schools, were followed by specially arranged excursions to places of interest by the various groups. Local centers of the professions and businesses in the fields of the graduate schools were seen, and this evening the first day's meeting was brought to, a successful close at a dinner, attended by President Lowell and Provost Penniman of the University of Pennsylvania...
Saturday will be a day of excursions and sporting events. In the morning trips through historical Philadelphia, and surrounding points of interest will occupy the alumni, and in the afternoon many of them are expected to view the baseball game between Harvard and Pennsylvania, and the crew races on the Schuylkill between Harvard, Pennsylvania and the Navy...
Since the establishment of the Rhodes scholarships in 1904 more than six hundred graduates of American colleges have made use of them to study at Oxford. Now these alumni of the great English university are planning to show their appreciation by raising an endowment fund to be used by it for building and research purposes or, if it prove necessary in later years, to supplement the original Rhodes Fund...
...other, but the smoking of cigarets was permitted. They sat in old Connecticut Hall, where Patriot Nathan Hale once roomed. On the Yale team were eight Phi Beta Kappa men, one dark horse and John Knox Jessup, campus wit, who last autumn wrote on his page in the Yale Alumni Weekly: "Harvard men cannot be said to aim at, for they essentially are, good form...
...these two slips Leader would have a record of six years without a defeat. He is efficient because he is absorbed in training a crew to row, without considering the minor problems of morale, college politics or his personal popularity. He is liked by the great tribe of Yale alumni, most of whom agree that if Leader thinks his crew will be in the Olympics he is probably right...