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...town games is one at Chicago where the Varsity will play a trio of riders from the Windy City indoor league whose agregate handicap will equal Harvard's. This event is sponsored by the Harvard Club of Chicago, to whom the proceeds of the match will go to augment maintainance of the annual scholarship for Illonois students entering Harvard, and is to be the occasion of a local Harvard rally. It will be the first time Harvard has sent a polo team so far afield...
From Havana he was sent to Peking where his hard-riding military experience stood him in good stead, both at polo which he and other junior diplomats played in the precincts of the Temple of Heaven and at poker where his winnings had to be relied on to augment his small official stipend. The day came when the State Department discovered that Henry Fletcher was also a diplomat. As chargé d'affaires at Peking in 1909, amid the rumblings that preceded the overthrow of the Empire, he proved his mettle. From then on his path was onward...
Although the Council's cash balance available for appropriation to scholarships and aids as of September 1, 1934 will be approximately $1000 if no receipts are forthcoming between now and then, every cent received by the Council from now on will be used to augment the scholarship and aid account for 1934-35. Accordingly, officers of the Student Council have issued a request for the retirement of all pledges still outstanding...
...have had many offers to augment my collection of Czarist Treasures by acquiring jewels and works of art which once belonged to bygone crowned heads of Europe...
...were to be admitted into House sports, other men might play on the lower teams, or match their mettle with the mighty if they so desired. To some extent such an arrangement would undoubtedly be a makeshift, with the all attendant difficulties peculiar to compromise measures. It would, however, augment the spirit of inter-House rivalry; should any sport suffer from a loss of members attracted to the House fields, it would deserve to be eliminated...