Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House will be given a chance to do what it wants, and for the first few months there will no inter-House debates, but informal discussions at which it is hoped some men of national prominence will speak, are to be held. It was also announced that a silver cup will probably be given to the House which wins the debating championship...
Yachtsman Harold Stirling Vanderbilt dashed up from his Florida winter home to Manhattan one day last week, turned around the next and dashed back. Before he left, however, he cleared away the fog of rumor surrounding the defense of the America's Cup against the challenge of the Royal Yacht Squadron...
...Vanderbilt, who commanded the Cup-winning Enterprise three years ago, has formed a syndicate to build a new defense yacht, as yet unnamed. The syndicate includes J. Pierpont Morgan, Gerard Barnes Lambert, Edward H. Harkness, George Fisher Baker, Frederick William Vanderbilt and Harold's brother William Kissam Vanderbilt. The syndicate undertook to raise $400,000, which is $200,000 less than Enterprise cost. Proposed $40,000 shares were split down to $4,000 units, but, even so, subscriptions were slow. To avoid further delay members of the syndicate underwrote the whole sum, gave the word to the Herreshoff Yard...
Died. Henry Frederick Lippitt, 77, president and board chairman of Manville Jenckes Co., Rhode Island's largest ($39,000,000) textile firm, vice president of Cotton Textile Institute Inc., onetime (1911-17) U. S. Senator, yachtsman (his sloop Weetamoe won the Astor Cup in 1906); of a heart attack; in Providence...
James M. Sampson '35, manager of the Harvard soccer team has donated a cup to be given to the winner of the league championship. Sampson, John F. Carn, Jr. '28, Varsity soccer coach, Henry W. Clark '23 of the H.A.A., were the Crimson representatives at the meeting. Clark, who is graduate manager of athletics, was appointed temporary chairman of the new league...