Word: brownings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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High jump-won by Beveridge (scratch); second E. R. Snow '33 (scratch); third, P. S. Brown '30 (scratch). Height...
...Washington & Lee at Blacksburg. Midwest: Minnesota v. Indiana at Indianapolis; Nebraska v. Kansas at Lincoln; Northwestern v. Illinois at Evanston; Wisconsin v. Purdue at Madison. West: Southern California v. California at Los Angeles; Redlands v. Pomona at Redlands; Stanford v. California Tech at Palo Alto. FOOTBALL (Nov. 9) East: Brown v. Dartmouth at Providence; Columbia v. Colgate at New York; N. Y. U. v. Georgia at New York; Pennsylvania v. Penn State at Philadelphia; Princeton v. Lehigh at Princeton; Navy v. Georgetown at Annapolis; Wesleyan v. Williams at Middletown; Yale v. Maryland at New Haven. South: Alabama v. Kentucky...
...Brown University one evening last week, in oldtime Sayles Memorial Hall where chapel is held, some 1,000 graduates gathered to sit on couches and chairs brought in to make them feel like "just one big family." Master of ceremonies was Everett Colby, '97, Manhattan lawyer. He introduced one of whom all there had heard, his classmate Alumnus John Davison Rockefeller Jr. Alumnus Colby said that Alumnus Rockefeller "runs a gas station somewhere down near New York" and assured the gathered company that "John would be pleased to meet any member of the alumni who needs a million dollars...
First in the procession was Sheriff Jonathan Andrews of Providence County, resplendent in top hat, evening dress, a bright blue ribbon across his starched shirt front, a sword knocking at his side. Since 1790 this has been the Brown custom on such occasions. After the Sheriff came a faculty member bearing the university's golden mace, not so old a custom, the mace having been acquired two years ago. Dr. Barbour and Chancellor Arnold Buffum Chace came next. Close behind was Dr. Abbott Lawrence Lowell, for without a Harvard President present, no Brown President has ever taken office. Under...
...Present at the dedication was the Professor himself and his two apple-cheeked sons. His audience wandered through the museum, marveled at the "Hall of the East" in which 100 ritual lights burned before a Tibetan shrine. The audience included turbanned Indians, grave Chinese, eager U. S. intellectuals, a brown woman with gems fastened in her nose, a plump white woman wearing a jingling Colombian Indian costume. Kermit Roosevelt dropped his eyes against curious stares. Natacha Rambova, white turbanned and weighted with gold invited the avid to her studio. Esoteric prattlers shook the Professor's hands and looked...