Word: evently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent years Harvard fencing teams have been handicapped by the necessity of placing one man in all three events. That inconvenience has been remedied this year, the fencers being confined to one event. This change is expected to help the team materially...
...always an event when a college president enters a university lecture hall to speak to his audience on subjects of extra-collegiate significance. Time was, a century or more ago, when college presidents were active members of the teaching faculty, giving courses and advising students on a field of study like any professor. Of late, the growing complexity of university organization and administrative details has kept the college heads away from the speaker's platform, except for those occasions met in performance of duty...
...Event was Commander Byrd's successful flight to inspect some 10,000 square miles of Antarctica in a Fairchild monoplane with Pilot Bernt Balchen and Radioman Harold I. June. They saw some mountain peaks no one had seen before and decided to name them for John D. Rockefeller Jr.,* one of the heavy contributors to the expedition's fund. They named one peak for the expedition's cook, George Tennant, and seeing a bay in the ice barrier, "said Commander Byrd, "to name it Hal Flood Bay, after my mother's brother...
...size of the affair is what makes it remarkable. Small teas in the dormitory rooms have occurred before with some frequency; but only five or six were present at these, in contrast with the startling number at this recent event. The proctors, although they were quite willing to give permission, admitted surprise and joined with others in wondering if this is to be precedent for the transfer to Cambridge of the famous Back Bay quantity production tradition...
...Lions started off at a fast clip in the foils, Captain Tompkins of Columbia winning all of his three bouts. The University team, however, managed to win two of the last three bouts making the final count 5-4. Columbia won easily in the sabre event with a score of 3-1, R. W. Ehrich '30 saving the team from a white wash...