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...pursuit of a small duck. Royal swans are left unmarked. Dyers' swans have one nick cut in their bills, Vintners' swans two nicks. The task is made no easier by the fact that parent swans are extremely aggressive. They can bite and they can kick. They can buffet with their bony wings hard enough to break a man's arm. Yet they must be caught and securely tied in the bottom of the boat before the cygnets can be nicked. To a Swanherd a male swan is not a cock swan, or a drake swan, or even...
...President Hoover motors quickly back to White House. Buffet lunch. Calvin Coolidge, citizen, prepares to take the 2 p. m. train to Northampton, Mass...
Cincinnati was reached in time for a buffet dinner at the Queen City Club given by the Harvard Club. The concert was given on the Hotel Gibson Roof Garden with cabaret and night club effects, the spectators sitting at tables. After the concert the Gold Coast Orchestra played for dancing, but most of the members adjourned to the large debutante ball at the Hotel Sinton which lasted until 6 o'clock. The only incident of anyone almost getting left occurred here when the Indianapolis-bound train was stopped as it was leaving the station to take on several late arrivals...
...dedication took place in the Faculty Club of the Business School, following a buffet luncheon served there. President Lowell, William T. Aldrich, and O. M. W. Sprague '94. Converse Professor of Banking in the Business School, spoke at the ceremonies, paying tribute to the senior Mr. Aldrich and explaining the useful purpose of the library. W. B. Donham '98, Dean of the Business School, presided...
...Church at Charlottesville-conducted by a Presbyterian, with a sermon by a Methodist * -the President shook hands with Governors Angus W. McLean of North Carolina and Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia, who escorted him to the mansion of President Edwin A. Alderman of the University of Virginia for a buffet lunch. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson was there. President Coolidge twitted Governor Byrd about a cartoon in the Richmond Times-Dispatch which showed a Southern.Colonel peering through a knothole in the fence of a football field. A sign on the fence said: "Football, Thanksgiving Day-University of Virginia (Rep.) vs. University...