Word: delta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...talk illustrated with motion pictures. Frederick S. Dellenbaugh, Jr., president of the Delta Manufacturing Company of Cambridge, will speak on "An Engineer's Experiences with Tropical Fruit Research" tomorrow evening in Pierce 110 at 7.30 o'clock. The talk is under the auspices of the Harvard Engineering Society. Refreshments will be served...
...lounge of Manhattan's Phi Gamma Delta Club last week newshawks found a sleek-haired young man who was once the second most important man in Peru. Straining a whiskey-&-soda through his enormous teeth, Juan Leguia told a colorful story of three years' political imprisonment, and unwittingly revealed to his listeners why there are so many revolutions in Latin America...
WILLIAM March will inevitably be much compared to Faulkner, not only because the scene of his new novel, "Come in at the Door," is laid in the Delta country of the Mississippi, but also because a dark and forbidding pessimism is the net result of a somewhat unreal tale in which death, crime, and violence play their full part. To consider March a mental step-child of Faulkner is, however, extremely unjust. "Come in at the Door" is March's second novel, and, obviously an experiment in form, it likewise leaves a strong impression of being all experiment in subject...
...picture of John Harvard was extant at the time French began his sculpture, so he selected a student thought to resemble the founder, dressed him in Puritan garb, and used him as a model. The statue was the gift of Samuel James Bridges. It stood originally in the delta west of Memorial Hall, but in 1924 it was moved to its present location in the Yard--according to one theory, in order to keep all light out of the Dean's office...
...Delta Upsilon has this year chosen "The Contrast" by Royall Tyler '76 for its annual theatrical production. The play will be presented in the Chapter House at 396 Harvard Street on March 15, 16, and 17. "The Contrast" is generally referred to as the first American play, since it was the first play to gain anything more than local popularity...