Word: delta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Grandsons, Edward Bok was proud of the fact that he encouraged his sons to make their own decisions, choose their own schools, plan their own vacations. Thus when his firstborn, tall, soft-spoken Curtis, finished at Hill School in 1915 he chose to enter Williams College. There he chose Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, distinguished himself as a varsity first baseman, was tapped for Gargoyle, the honor society whose roster includes New York's Governor Lehman, Massachusetts' Governor Ely. When the U. S. entered the War he chose to quit college for the Navy in which he attained...
...arising from the Victorian period that produced "Frankensten" and "The Murder in the Red Barn", few had more homely appeal than the demon barber of Fleet Street. His remarkable mechanical chair disposed of its occupants as decisively as Sing Sing's "hot squat". Such is the atmosphere of the Delta Upsilon's present revival...
...Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street," advertised as "a gripping molodrama of the 19th Century," will be produced by the Harvard Chapter of Delta Upsilon in its chapter house on Friday and Saturday. The play will begin at 8.30 o'clock on both evenings. On Friday, there will be dancing afterwards...
...knew much more about seagoing strategy. Admiral Jehu Valentine Chase, who retired last week, was much better versed in ordnance. But "Reddy" Leigh has the all-around experience of the kind which made Capt. Alfred Thayer Mahan a magic name. He was born 62 years ago near the Mississippi delta. An Annapolis graduate, he served aboard a collier, later on a patrol boat, off Cuba during the Spanish War. He sat on the board of inquiry which failed to discover why the Maine sank. During the War he commanded all U. S. subchasers in European waters. He married his cousin...
...deep in New Orleans lore, back to the Brothers Vaccaro-Joseph, Lucca and Felix-who emigrated from Italy some 40 years ago to found one of the greatest fortunes on the Gulf Coast. Old Joe Vaccaro started as a field hand on a plantation far down the Mississippi Delta. His daughter married one Salvador...