Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Morgan was a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College from 1909 to 1915, and from 1916 to 1922. His election as president of the Alumni Association took place this week at the annual October meeting of its directors, who selected, as the two vice-presidents J. M. Morton, '91, of Fall River, United States District Judge in Massachusetts, and A. A. Sprague, '97, of Chicago, onetime chairman of the board of Sprague, Warner & Company, and now a director of that company...
...latter meeting, the new directors for the year 1929-30 will be elected. Present members of the board from the undergraduate body are W. P. Lage '30 and F. H. Gade...
Scotland Yard. Dakin Barrolles is an arch-thief who has his war-torn face plastically repaired in the image of the missing board chairman of the Bank of England. His resulting duplicity, which naturally extends into the bedroom of the banker's wife, prompts Sir Clive Heathcote of Scotland Yard to remark: "This is the greatest case the Yard has ever known!" The acting is bad. There are, however, some splendid sets-in a convent, a castle, London's Embassy Club-by a person named Yellenti, and an equally decorative heroine named Phoebe Foster...
...staff that the professional members of the New York Infirmary for Women & Children raised a vigorous clamor last spring when their institution seemed about to be dissolved. Last week they were cheering, for friends were raising them $3,000,000 to build a 21-story hospital. President of their board of trustees and chief of the money-gathering squadrons is Mrs. Frank Arthur Vanderlip, wife of the onetime (1909-19) president of the National City Bank, since last month the world's largest. They have six children...
...Greak Neck, microphone and control board are located in the Principal's office, allowing him to "pipe" his voice to any or all classrooms. Likewise from the control board may be sent such hand-picked radio entertainment as Great Neck students should hear, talking-machine records, lectures. Because few large schools have adequate auditoriums, because much time is spent moving shuffling menageries of school children to and from meetings, such new-fangled means of classroom communication will be smiled on by educators...