Word: binghams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best. To her opponent's total of nine she found no less than 13 covies, putting her far ahead of the field and giving her a leg on the title trophy donated in 1931 by the Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, Col. Robert Worth Bingham...
...sweet a gentleman as ever scuttled a ship or cut a throat." President Roosevelt thought nothing of it either. When he returned to private life, he and Watterson dined together on the best of terms. Last week the acting editor of the Courier-Journal, now owned by Robert Worth Bingham, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, got into a serious scrape for much less daring impudence...
...team will land in New York about Sunday, April 1. Marshall Field is giving a dinner at the Racquet Club on Thursday, April 5 at which William J. Bingham '16, director of Athletics, will be one of the speakers of the evening. After the dinner the whole Cambridge squad will be the guest of Mr. Field at the Cafe de Paris...
...suggesting the endowment or immediate sale of the Varsity crew quarters at Red Top last week, Mr. Bingham intimated that if it were necessary to sell these buildings that the Varsity squad would be housed in the present Freshman quarters. In this case the Freshman race would be rowed in Cambridge. Although Mr. Bingham expects in this manner to be able to finance the annual $3000 overhead charges for the remaining equipment, it is totally unjustified in these times to spend even this amount on an unnecessary three weeks training period for two dozen...
...other hand, the endowment fund cannot immediately be raised, which is highly likely, Mr. Bingham suggests that the present Varsity Boat House be sold, and the money used for upkeep until the endowment be raised. This boat house is situated on a point said to be a fine site for an inn, and conservative estimates claim that it would bring $15,000 as it stands, which would enable the remainder of Red Top to continue its activity until money had been raised to fund its yearly upkeep. The Variety crew would be quartered in the Freshman house, and the Freshman...