Word: bays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...islands were bought chiefly so that Germany might not obtain a naval base in the Caribbean. Now the question is: What shall we do with them? St. Thomas has a good port for a naval station but will not be used by the Navy because Guantanamo Bay is superior. St. Croix is suitable for agriculture, but has had almost no rain for three years; so its sugarcane industry is practically ruined. The drought, which has also affected most of the Greater Antilles, is so great that there is not even enough water on the islands for cattle, and the cattle...
Still, the "Symposium", like the Intercollegiate and Silver bay conferences, is as Pres. Harding would say "a step in the right direction", and every encouragement should be offered those who have the initiative and courage to try to remedy an unsatisfactory situation. Educational methods are acknowledged to be far from perfect; and any improvements which students can suggest will be received eagerly by everyone, and not least of all by the muchabused faculties...
Gunther, who was operating the machine suddenly lost control of the plane for some reason which will probably never be ascertained, so that the machine plunged into a nose-dive and crashed into the bay. The bodies have not yet been recovered...
...vocal duets by B. S. Cogan '23 and R. P. Bullard '24 were given encore after encore. The musical numbers were also well received, the best liked being "Won't You Marry Me", "Cuddle Up", "I Thing It's Wonderful", "Southern Shore", and "Back to Back Bay...
Stoughton, a member of the class of 1650, was one of the most prominent men of his time in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, of which he was lieutenant-governor. He served as chief justice in the notorious Salem witchcraft trials. It was he who presented to the University the original Stoughton Hall, which, "being an unsubstantial piece of masonry," had to be taken down in 1780 and was succeeded in 1806 by the present Stoughton Hall...