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Another event which promises to become a tradition, is the annual House feast on the anniversary of Charles W. Eliot's birthday, March 20. This year President Conant and Mr. John Finley, editor of the New York Times, addressed the merry gathering and it is expected that speakers of like merit will be procured every year...
...have engaged in some form of intra-mural athletics, in addition to the large number engaged in Varsity athletics. Squash, of course, brings out the largest number of men, and it was with a good deal of pride that the House received the championship trophy at the annual feast on March 20. The touch football team (for lo, our gridsters made the Varsity teams) gained the title last fall without losing a game. The large turnouts for crew and baseball augurs well for the future...
...Feast was held in commemoration of President Eliot's 101 birthday and it is expected that a similar celebration will be held on the same day every year...
John Finley, editor of the New York Times and President Conant spoke at the first annual Eliot House Feast last night while Professor Merriman acted as toastmaster for a roomful of Elephants stuffed by Mr. Westcott's prize steaks...
Shrewd U. S. Minister Ruth Bryan Owen flattered little Denmark's pride in its big colony of Greenland by holding a Dansmik (Eskimo feast) in her legation at Copenhagen. Eighty guests, chosen for their interest in Greenland, dined on Eskimo food to the music of Eskimo accordions, reclined on Eskimo brixes, called each other by Eskimo names. Chief guest, addressed as Ipatuklivak (Mightily- Bearded-God), was Greenland's most jealous Danish protector, strapping, bushy Premier Thorvald Stauning. After dinner Madam Minister Owen, called Inunguak (Dear-Little-Woman), played records which she made in Greenland last summer...