Word: attendance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first tea will be given this afternoon. All students and their wives, and members of the faculty and staff are cordially invited to attend. The teas are held in Lawrence 3 from 4.30 to 5.30 o'clock each day, Monday and Friday, inclusive...
...Alabamian refused to admit Negroes to a public meeting, he would surprise nobody. Neither would a Virginian who refused to attend a church where Negroes were worshipping. Last fortnight the Rev. William St. John Blackshear, Texas-born Brooklyn rector, asked Negro members of his congregation to go elsewhere to church. A lot of people were surprised. A lot of others were incensed...
...expert who, like Whitehead, has had a hand in the movement responsible for replacing auction bridge with contract bridge as the standard social card-game, did not attend Whitehead's convention. He, Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, one of the best bridge-players in the world, has written a book † on Bridge and brought a new word into the language, "vanderbilting." Briefly, and in popular terms, you vanderbilt when you bid one club as an indication that you have three quick tricks in your hand. Though the club bid indicates the three tricks, to bid it you do not need...
...first of the Harvard Union's Sunday evening entertainments will be held tomorrow at 7.15 o'clock in the Union living room. All members of the University are invited to attend this initial Sunday evening entertainment. The occasion is marked by the fact that after this date the Union will be open for members only. Roy Lamson '29 and the Harvardians, fresh from a successful season in Scandinavia will provide musical entertainment with a "Russian Phantasy" followed by a rendering of "I'm in Love With You", and ending with the ever-present "Tiger Rag". S. W. Burbank '30, xylophonist...
...issued an appeal through the newspapers urging the public to protest against the plan to prohibit broadcasting of professional boxing matches and baseball games, which is being seriously considered by the magnates of these sports. Apart from the loss of enjoyment to thousands of people who could not possibly attend the games in person, such a course reveals an uneasiness in the minds of the promoters that seems strangely inconsistent with the reports of clamorous demands for seats at the coming World's Series and of a very gratifying gate at a fight between contenders of far from championship calibre...