Word: distant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...result of a six weeks competition, Harry Eldridge '24, of Hempstead I. I. N. Y. has been appointed second assistant manager of the University tennis team and Leonard Field Holmes of West Roxbury has been appointed as distant manager of the second tennis team. These appointments are subject to the approval of the Athletic Committee and the Student Council...
...peculiarly American character at the college. During the service held in the chapel Dr. Fisher spoke briefly about the Puritan messages and the Pilgrims. The singing of the national anthem brought to a close an impressive ceremony in memory of the traditions and ideas of a far distant land...
...regular eights, an extra stroke, and three extra coxswains; the extra men will be retained until the April Recess. During the next few days Dr. Howe and the coaches will concentrate on picking a first and second eight for the Pennsylvania race, which is less than four weeks distant. A definite arrangement of the two crews will be announced probably by Thursday...
...announcement of courses may read at a not distant date if present developments in radio telephony and reading continue. At the same time that individual wireless receivers are spring up on all ears to catch the music and the speeches in the air, Rear Admiral Fiske has invented a Reading Machine which enables a man to carry "the Government of England" in his vest pocket. Strips of paper bearing microscopic characters are passed by the operator of the machine under a magnifying glass powerful enough to permit comfortable reading. So vast is the saving of paper effected by this process...
...twenty-two songs which will be sung tonight are of a much higher type than the "Solomon Levi" and "I've been working on the railroad" of the not so distant past. The repertoires will not be classical by any means--the names of Brahm or Palestrina or Rubinstein are not likely to appear on the program--and while the music will be of a lighter vein than is usually associated with the Glee Club, it will be decidedly of the better sort. If the Club had nothing more to its credit than the responsibility for this change, it would...