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Besides the salt, High Table has slowly acquired several other gifts. Coolidge also donated a gold plate with the escutcheon of the House on it. The designer of the House--a different Coolidge--gave the candelabra, while Baliol College in Oxford contributed a silver plate...
...Brett. The Honorable Dorothy Brett was born in London (1891), daughter of Reginald Baliol Brett, Viscount Esher, friend and adviser of Britain's shrewd, sporty King Edward VII. Dorothy studied art at London's Slade School. In her art-student days she met Novelist D. H. Lawrence, was so impressed by him that she followed him to Taos. After Lawrence's death, in 1933. Dorothy Brett wrote Lawrence and Brett, a minor literary sensation...
Hammond and Westgate rowed together at Baliol College, England, and all members of the crew have had considerable previous experience in the art of rowing, several having rowed in England. It is notable that three men on the crew are advanced students of the classics...
Mason Hammond, head tutor of Lowell, who formerly played on the Baliol team, opened the meeting by commending rugby as a game for inter-house competition. T. P. Fry grL. followed with a talk on the intra-mural and college games planned, as well as an explanation of the fundamental rules of rugby...
...late President Eliot it was almost a loyalty. With Mr. Lowell it may be an acute form of colonialism to which a part of New England is strangely and perversely addict. Hence, probably, the house idea at Cambridge which would cloister the young men in Boston suburb reproductions of Baliol, Magdalene, etc. There is an endowment available for one of them. A further projection of the idea is that the athletics of the university shall be principally contests between the houses, as at Oxford and Cambridge, with university matches only with Yale...