Word: fain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dillon Again. To every business persisting in the hands of its founder's descendants comes at one time or another the temptation to sell out. Such descendants all too often are inept in business affairs, fain would clip coupons and shy at "trade." To one such group, the scions of Samuel S. White, founder in 1844 of the S. S. White Dental Manufacturing Co. (now the world's largest concern of its field), and to the company's shareholding employes, came Clarence Dillon of Dillon, Read & Co. Mr. Dillon offered to buy them out, just as he offered...
...Yale team was composed of H. G. Rowell, H. H. Thompson, and Basil Davenport, while E. C. Sibley '28, D. S. Dickson '27, and I. J. Fain '27 represented Harvard. Professor I. S. Winter, Professor Emeritus of Public Speaking at Harvard, was the chairman of the debate, and Professor C. Edmund Neil, of Boston University, Mr. James E. King, of the Boston Transcript editorial staff, and the Reverend William R. Leslie, of St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Brookline, were the judges...
...University negative team which will enter the lists tonight is composed of E. C. Sibley '28, D. S. Dickson '27, and I. J. Fain '27, with George Slaff '26, and A. F. Reel '28 as alternates. Of these Dickson is the only one who spoke in the triangular debates last year. The Yale team is composed of H. G. Rowell, H. H. Thomas, Basil Davenport, and H. G. Hayes, alternate...
...Yale debate will be held as scheduled at 8.15 o'clock in Payne Hall. E. C. Sibley '28, D. S. Dickson '27 and I. J. Fain '27 have been picked to defend the negative against the Eli debaters...
...debate at 7 o'clock in Emerson D on Monday and Tuesday evenings. The following teams will report Monday; Affirmative--Barrett Williams '28, William Exton Jr. '26, and E. C. Sibley '28. Negative--Harry Newburger '27, F. W. Lorenzon '28, and D. L. Dickson '27, Tuesday: Affirmaive--L. J. Fain '27, H. W. rose '29, and W. F. Stafford '28; Negative--A. F. Reel '28, George Slaff '26, and J. A. Bassett...