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...basement of the house in which every treasure was moved. Then the vault was bricked up. Doors and corridors had to be rearranged. In order to install a modern air-conditioning system the panelling in several rooms had to be taken apart piecemeal and replaced. Eighteen ten-ton blocks of marble were quarried before Miss Frick found one with just the color she wanted for a fountain in the central court. Mrs. Frick was wont to take her ease in a boudoir on the second floor whose panels had once been painted by Boucher for Mme de Pompadour. This...
...League's so-called Committee of Eighteen which makes Sanctions decisions will consider Proposal...
...harrier from Winthrop, crossed the finish line a scant yard ahead of F. M. Rivinus, a Lowell representative. A few seconds later C. C. DeCoster managed to pass Lawson of Adams in the last few strides to gain third place for Lowell House. The rest in the field of eighteen were widely scattered. Inasmuch as the first three runners have all had Varsity experience, their superiority was not surprising; but of the fifteen others, only Lawson was in a contending position as they raced for the finish line. Although Rivinus had previously won the University Handicap, it was generally expected...
...continued the Dodo, standing on one leg and the other against his forehead, "the officials have discovered that the average family's cooking oven and pans will not accomodate a turkey weighing more than eighteen pounds. The new one will fit in every home; and weigh about fifteen pounds. It's science, and it's politics...
Eliot House has shown a reversal of last year's from when it was found impossible to find eleven men willing to play football. This season there are more than eighteen men practicing daily on Soldiers Field. The squad outweighs the others and is the dark horse of the league. It is coached by C. D. Hulsare, letterman on the Dartmouth team...