Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are no cars at Michigan, and Detroit is over 40 miles away, so there are parties galore within walking distance. Every weekend some one of the important fraternities gives a party; during the football season, there are innumerable social functions which may be more aptly described as brawls. For the games the fraternity houses decorate their buildings in every way imaginable: today there is a contest between the fraternities to see which can put up the gayest decorations. There are to be slices of yellow and blue; there are to be slices of brilliant crimson: and there...
...breach between father and son gradually widens until John finally leaves his ancestral home to go north and work in Detroit as a bank clerk is merely the vehicle for the steady development of an atmosphere, which is obviously the author's chief excuse for writing the book. He accomplishes his end well, however, for the reader is left a real understanding of a class of people in the south which is often written about but seldom presented in such a sympathic and clear form...
William McKee Dunn '30, of Detroit, Michigan, was elected vice-president, to succeed T. H. Cuihane, Jr., 'ocC. The promotion of Dunn to the post of vice-president leaves the position of librarian unfilled, but it is expected that someone will be chosen for that place in the near future...
...Continent Trust Conference meets at Detroit...
Ford Tour. Two dozen of the 29 planes which started the 4,800-mi. National Air Reliability Tour of 1929 at Detroit, reached their Detroit goal in a heavy rain last week. Winner of the Edsel Ford Trophy and $2,500 cash was swarthy John Henry Livingston, 31, of Aurora, III, who flew a Wright-motored Waco biplane. Runner-up planes were (in order) : Waco, Ford, Curtiss Condor, Bellanca, Bellanca, Command-Aire, Kreider-Reisner, Spartan, Ford. Although losers yammered about the method of scoring, the Tour did disclose the characteristics of the planes in quick takeoffs, slow landings, load-carrying...