Word: chapin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...start the third week, the Experts' Plan for Germany's restoration was lugged into Chapin Hall. The members hunched forward in their seats to hear what Dr. Moritz J. Bonn, financial oracle to many a Berlin ministry, would...
...Exhibit B of the week. Sir Arthur Salter's round table had been pouring over the League of Nations for days. There had been dissension. Now the debate was brought out into Chapin Hall, where the Army and Business (pro) locked epithets with the Navy and miscellaneous interests (con). Rear Admiral John A. Rodgers, outspoken mariner, "shocked" a Britisher, was hissed by a woman. The tumult over, Sir Arthur obliged by answering League questions, dubbing the U. S. "Arcadia," to keep his remarks free from improprieties...
...Williamstown, Mass., 200 persons, including not a few personages (TiME, July 28), were ushered to seats of privilege in Chapin Hall. There was just room for them all. Some were bearded, some were bald; all looked interested. They were the chosen few of more than 1,000 who had applied to Chairman Harry Augustus Garfield, President of Williams College for membership in the fourth annual session of the Institute of International Politics. How, why, by whom the 200 were selected were matters for conjecture. But there they sat, wise men from far and near; and Dr. Garfield mounted the platform...
Between orations in Chapin Hall, the members went off in little knots to put their heads together over Round Tables...
California. Pennsylvania and Massachusetts met for Southern California honors. Tilden of Philadelphia smote Chapin of Springfield hip and thigh, though his own thigh and ankle ached from a stumble. Collegiate. Onto the courts at Eastbourne, England, strolled several young Oxonians, several young Cantabs. They undid their white knitted mufflers, slid out of their gay striped blazers. They politely volleyed with their guests-several young Elis, several young "Red Bellies" (Harvards). They conveniently trounced their guests, 15 matches to 6, politely strolled in to tea. These matches are now an annual occurrence...