Word: downes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Mr. Mark Howe '87 has rendered a great service to the University through the publication of "The Harvard Volunteers in Europe." This volume is composed of letters written by Harvard men from the French and British lines, scrawled off for the most part at the front with no thought of...
A great annoyance to readers of library books is to find margins and type itself covered with humorous inscriptions. There seems to be a species of inexpensive humor which delights in ornamenting books that other men must use. Perhaps these significant underlinings, obliterations and witty marginal notes are put down...
"Our expedition reached Gebel Barkal from Cairo on January 24 fast," says Dr. Reisner in his report. "We worked there three months, employing a force of about 300 local workmen, and left just in time to escape the hot weather. Fortunately at Gebel Barkal there were two completely ruined pyramids...
We must look then to the committee on naval affairs, headed by that famous "landlubber", William Alden Smith, who, in all seriousness, during the Titanic inquiry, asked such questions as "Did the boat go down by front or the bow?" and "Why didn't the passengers go into the water...
...keep it long; for the University obtained it on its own 40-yard line, after Thurman had been forced to punt, and drove it over the goal line in ten plays. One of these was a long 25-yard run by Minot, who was finally downed by Coleman after he had dragged the latter ten yards along with him. This touchdown was scored by Bond who also kicked the goal. Bond scored 26 points out of the total score...