Word: downer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Directed by an old hand, Alan S. Downer 5G, the Bellboys will present Shakespeare's version of "The Taming of the Shrew" with baritone John S. Weld '39 starring in the female lead of Katarina...
...finance research and advertising for Progressive Education, P. E. A. needed money. It did not need to look outside its own group, for one of its members was gentle, modest Mrs. Avery Coonley, daughter of Capitalist Dexter Mason Ferry (Ferry Seeds), who was running a little Progressive school in Downer's Grove, Ill. Watered by Mrs. Coonley's gifts, P. E. A. flourished and Progressive Education burst into bloom...
Friday, Sept. 30:--Today I saw one of the things in the News that makes me understand Harvard less and less. It was a happy little notice about how Harry Downer got a scholarship up at Cambridge just because his name was Downer. This doesn't make any sense to me. What can be so attractive about the name Downer that people give him scholarships? Especially a feebly growing Downer who is self-admittedly a lazy sort of blighter. Why no Botsford scholarships? I bet erg for erg I can out-lethargy Downer every time out. And if Downer...
Woodbury Lowery Fellowships in History to Walter D. Brown, of Washington, D.C.; Special Fellowship in the Graduated School of Education to Hope Fisher, of Princeton; Buckley Scholarship to Martin Ritvo, of Dorchester, for study in the Law School; Downer Scholarship to Edward C. Woods, 2Dn., of Rutland, Vermont; Lincoln Scholarship to Richard A. McLean, 2G., of Lincoln; Lydig Scholarship to Jefferson G. Artz, 1G., of Vicksburg, Mississipi; Parlin Scholarship to Irving L. Pavlo, 2M., of Malden; and Vaughn Scholarship to Theodore P. Robie, of New York City, for study at the Medical School...
Cast in supporting roles are L. John Pront, Margaret, White, Robert de Lany, Robert Nichols '41, Allan Downer 4G. Redney Whitman, Walter M. Perkins '41, W. Russell Rowie, Jr., '41, and Westmore Wilcox...