Word: chestnuts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First important U. S. steeplechase of the season, the Carolina Cup which Trouble Maker won last year, was run last week at Camden. S. C. A crowd of 15,000 saw Pink Tipped, 8-year-old chestnut mare owned by Richard K. Mellon of Pittsburgh, ridden under top-weight of 162 Ib. by William Street who had never seen his mount till the morning of the race, take the last hurdle perfectly, outrun Hotspur II in the last 20 yd. to win in record time...
...Boston College Library Auditorium in Chestnut Hill at 8 o'clock this evening, the University Debating Council will meet the Fulton Debating Society of Boston College in their fifth debate. The University debaters will take the affirmative of the resolution: "Resolved, That the international traffic in munitions should be outlawed...
...Bliss '36, business manager of the Freshman Red Book, announced yesterday the election of five Freshman to the Red Book Business Board. The newly-elected sub-chairman is Edward Putnam Currier, Jr. '36, of Scarboroughon-Hudson, New York. The other members are: Richard Abeles Illoway '36, of Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, Walter Avery Kernan '36, of Utica, New York, Frederick Clarke Lawton '36, of Plainfield, New Jersey, and Edwin Howard Baker Pratt '36, of Glen Cove, Long Island...
...three months will the horse chestnut trees in the Champs Elysees raise their white candles in the sun, yet last week on the Place Vendome and Rue de la Paix, spring had already come. The closely guarded private openings of the grand couturiers were over. Buyers who had paid $100 per opening apiece to attend (refunded on the first order) streamed from Paris with orders for their employers and tips for newshawks on the new fashions. French actresses had been given their pick of free gowns for the spring season and the salons were opened for humble citizens who might...
...Harvard Lampoon, undergraduate humorous publication, has announced the appointment of the following officers: Sidney Carroll '34, of Brooklyn, New York, president; Richard John Walsh, Jr. '34, of Pelham, New York, Ibis; Harold Willis Nichols '34, of Cincinnati, Ohio, Treasurer; Andrew Eliot Ritchie, Jr. '34, of Chestnut Hill, Secretary; Robert Blaine Murray, Jr. '34 of Hampstead, Maryland, Circulation Manager. These officers will form the executive board of the Lampoon for the coming year, extending to January...