Word: blakely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the Department of State was moved to issue a public warning against a new international racket. By smooth-tongued "agents," many U. S. citizens have been convinced that they are heirs to large British estates ?the buccaneering gold of Sir Francis Drake, the "Blake millions," the "Townley estate" et al. To get these fortunes out of "Chancery," the "heirs" were duped into paying the racketeers thousands of dollars in "legal fees." Letters from some 300 would-be inheritors have swamped the U. S. Consulate in London...
Professor Kirsopp Lake and Associate Professor R. P. Blake, '09. Director of the Harvard University Library, are leading the archaeological expedition which is going out from Harvard this week to continue researches in the Sinai peninsula. Professor R. F. Butin of the Catholic University of America will be a member of the expedition, which is being carried out under the joint auspices of the two Universities...
They will carry on further researches in the area where proto-Semitic inscriptions were recovered by Professors Lake and Blake in 1927. The inscriptions were found on the platean of Serabit-el-Khadem in the Sinal peninsula, 60 miles southeast of Suez...
From this site Professor Lake will go to the Monastery of St. Catherine to pursue his researches in Biblical manuscripts while Professor Blake returns to the United States by way of Bulgaria and Roumania where he expects to carry on certain negotiations on behalf of the Harvard College Library. Professor Lake will be away until the fall. Professor Blake will return to Cambridge about the first of April...
...School, was elected Orator of the Senior Class. He was one of the founders of the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art, whese exhibitions are shown at intervals throughout the winter. The position of Odist was won by Otto Eugene Schoen-Rene, of New York City. He prepared at the Blake School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and is prominent as Pegasus of the Advocate. Douglas Payne Adams of Charlestown, was elected Poet. A graduate of Boston English High School, he was a member of his Junior Eight of Phi Beta Kappa. Albert Good-will Churchill, of Livermore, California, was elected Ivy Orator...