Word: fifths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...class C race the 1929 court team was unable to gain any advantage when it dropped a 3 to 2 decision to the strong Walk Over team on the University Squash Courts last Saturday. The Freshmen are still in fifth place, eight games behind the league Harvard Club squad...
...Chicago found it out. He made a survey of baseball for the National Amateur Athletic Federation. He questioned 10,000 athletic directors of elementary schools, high schools, colleges, welfare organizations; questioned sporting editors, coaches, sporting-goods manufacturers, and the Young Idea itself. He found that little Tatterbreeches of the fifth grade and gawky Longpants of first-year high school no longer aim to be Ty Cobbs and Walter Johnsons when they grow up. Their aspirations, in order of prevalence, are to Red Grangeship, fame as a basketball player and Paavo Nurmidom. Baseball comes fourth...
Married. Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt, daughter of the William Kissam Vanderbilts, to one Earl E. T. Smith of Manhattan; at the W. K. Vanderbilt mansion, soon to be replaced by a commercial structure, Fifth Avenue, Manhattan. Exuberant, the Chicago Tribune reported, "Four gallons of rare perfume were used to spray the interior of the house...
James Lawrence '01, of Boston and Hyde Park, has been selected by directors of the Harvard Alumni Association, as Chief Marshal of the alumni at Commencement next June, it was announced yesterday. Mr. Lawrence was nominated by members of the class of 1901 who will celebrate their twenty-fifth anniversary of graduation from the College at Commencement this year, and in accordance with the tradition will furnish the Chief Marshal...
...Advocate, at the beginning of this College year, appeared with a totally new makeup and decided changes in matter, there were many of us, I fancy, who suspected a flash in the pan, and settled ourselves back comfortably in preparation for panning the fresh. With the appearance of the fifth number of the Advocate in its improved form, however, the tensed muscles of early detractors have perceptibly relaxed, and a noticeable feeling grows among the unliterary and the extra-porticum that the paper, rather more than ever, has something individual to say. Physically, is is crisper to the touch...