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During the summer alterations have been made in the Harvard Union to prepare for its use in 1931 as a Freshman dining hall. A kitchen and serving room have been installed on the first floor, and the old dining room, the living room, and the bandstand, which has been completely glassed in, have been connected; these three will serve as the Freshman dining halls in 1931. The newspaper, and game rooms, and the library, remain unchanged
...stood on a truck at Scollay Square; he held aloft a sign saying: "Diogenes looking for Hoover Prosperity." The air was full of a thousand Smiths and not a few O'Briens; they were on pages of torn-up telephone books. It was getting dark. The Smith mounted a bandstand on Boston Common. Noise. Ambulances. Later were found upon the Common purses, women's hats, beaded bags, and 17 shoes. The Smith went to the Hotel Statler to eat, dress and think over his speech. The crowd, hungry, waited...
Sidney Johnston Catts, Democrat, used to be Governor of Florida (1916-20). Many a speech had he made in and near Florida's capital, Tallahassee. Last week he mounted a Tallahassee bandstand and began an anti-Smith speech. He touched upon Roman Catholicism. Whizzz-smack went an egg. Mr. Catts continued. Whizzz-smack went many eggs. Mr. Catts stopped talking. Irate, he left the bandstand, offered to fight any man in the crowd in single combat, offered a reward for the apprehension of his eggers...
Last week Edwin Franko Gold man stood on his bandstand listening, not to the warm notes of his trombone but to words which one William B. Roulstone, President of the Central Park Association, was saying. Finally he reached, not for his score, but for a bronze desk-set offered by audiences, for a golden plaque, which members of his band had caused to be decorated with an engraving of their leader's face. "Only Coolidge, Harding, Lindbergh have had such portraits," said Mr. Roulstone. "The trio should be a quartet . . . gold to a Goldman...
Engineering means ingenuity. The engineers in charge of the new bandstand on Municipal Pier, St. Petersburg, Fla., were nearly "stumped" when it was discovered that their 16-ton concrete floor was 18 inches too near the roof to permit a sounding board to be fitted in. Raising the roof would be costly. Lowering the floor on screw jacks would involve getting the jacks out from underneath. They solved their problem with ice and sunshine. Jacking the floor up two feet, they shoved in 50-pound cakes of ice, removed the jacks .and old floor supports. Before the ice melted...