Word: delta
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...idea could be carried just a bit further, all roads leading to the Delta would be completely blocked during meal hours with clamoring would be diners. Consider the result if Mr. Meade were to procure the daily attendance, as he could for a trifling sum, of some local queen of the screen--always properly escorted--temporarily out of loose change. Consider the immediate change of atmosphere, the hushed and restrained conversation, the almost perfect technique of knife, fork, and spoon which would inevitably ensue. Consider the staggering spectacle of three hundred feeding students rising simultaneously to their feet upon...
...Maria Garcia Menocal, Cuban-born (1867) , was educated in the U.S. at Cornell University, was admitted to Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity (strong nationally and strong at Cornell). During the Spanish-American War he functioned as a fiery guerilla leader. Then he turned his attention to the Cuban American Sugar Co., took charge of the largest sugar estate on the island. In 1912, he was elected President of Cuba on the Conservative ticket. He was reelected in 1916. "Unemotional, quiet, determined, honest, economical, friendly to the U.S. say friends of Menocal...
This building will be located at the corner of the Yard nearest the rotunda, exactly on the site of old Dane Hall which was burned in 1917. Since that time the College offices have been housed in a temporary frame structure located next to Memorial Hall in the delta...
...This year it has been decided to hold the spread from both 12 to 12.30 o'clock and from 5.30 to 7 o'clock, and because of the fact that the club house is being remodelled, the festivities are scheduled to take place in Memorial Hall and in the Delta...
...music will be supplied by two orchestras, playing alternately, Bert Lowe's inside the Hall and Ives' Band outside in the Delta, where canvass will be spread for dancing...