Word: delta
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...familiar as his name is at the bottom of a printed slip, not many of those who have stood in line at the office on the Delta have had the privilege of speaking to him personally. Some few there are, however, who--getting the worst of a dispute with one of the clerks have stood upon their rights and appealed to Caesar. And these have invariably found the Bursar to be a very different person from what they had imagined, and discovered that the man who was spending five millions a year for the University was not without consideration...
...many of us, John Harvard is nothing more than a name to conjure with. To others, he is an impersonal bronze statue in the delta, valuable only as a subject for cartoonists. But that name and that statue have a deeper significance. The pensive young Puritan seated in the shadow of Memorial Hall embodies in a way the spirit that the University is proudest to foster: an earnest thoughtfulness. John Harvard was a young nonconforming divine who came to this continent in the early days of the colony in search of freedom for his thought and teaching...
...public. The Reverend Augustus Mendon Lord '83, D.D., of Providence, Rhode Island, the regular preacher for the week, will conduct the service. Before chapel, Dean C. N. Greenough '98, President of the Harvard Memorial Society, will place a wreath on the statue of John Harvard in the Delta. Contrary to former custom in commemorating the birth of the founder of the University there will be no exercises this year in front of the statue...
...twenty-first annual Senior Spread will be held in Memorial Hall Monday evening, June 20, from 8 until 1 o'clock, admission to which will be by ticket only. As usual, boxes and tables will be placed around the Delta, and in case of rain the chairs will be moved inside and the same numbers and letters employed there...
...twenty-first annual Senior Spread will be held in Memorial Hall one week from this evening from eight until one. Admission to the Spread will be by tickets which still can be purchased at 8 Holworthy Hall. Boxes and tables furnished by the committee will be placed in the Delta. In case of rain the boxes will not be used, and the tables will be moved inside the building and placed at intervals around the hall as well as in the balconies and transept. As the dance is scheduled to end at one o'clock, the committee urges...