Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...King wrote that at the dinner of the class of 1898 last June, the colors most in evidence were those of the celebrating class, blue and white. This was especially annoying to him because that afternoon the blue of Yale had waved triumphant on the baseball diamond. Nowhere, Mr. King wrote, was there a sign of crimson, Harvard's color...
...current issue of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine is Professor Coolidge's answer, delivered in a speech at the Thirtieth Anniversary dinner of the Class...
...Manhattan. Fortune Gallo has convinced the U. S. public that it is not necessary to pay eight dollars for a seat in order to attend an opera. For half that sum, or a quarter of it, one can share in a holiday that casts no dishonor upon a dinner coat, can offer flowers and shout "Bis!" and strut in the lobby between the acts with a fine air of having bought one's own cigaret. At the large-sized Century Theatre, Mr. Gallo's capable traveling company opened with Tosca. A new tenor, Franco Tafuro of Lima...
...Rockefeller Jr. The carilloneur, Anton Breese, once assistant in the Cathedral of Antwerp, pushed a lever. The 9-ton bass bell sent its huge note jarring down the street like a slow blackbird. He pushed another, and the tenor bell, which weighs no more than an ordinary country dinner-clapper, spoke clear and high...
Oxford Men Outgoing. Out of New York harbor sailed the 1925 detachment of Rhodes scholars, bound for Oxford. They had attended a farewell dinner at the Harvard club, heard discussed a tentative plan of the Rhodes trustees to abandon the present method of selecting two scholars every three years from each state and substituting a method whereby the quota would be allotted from six to eight districts into which the country would be divided. The object: a more representative group of students. Details of the plan were not published, nor were the dinner speeches of President Frank P. Aydelotte...