Word: finlay
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...Finlay...
...more mellow vintages and rare good fellowship. At the Guildhall, the Lord Mayor toasted Coolidge. Friday there were receptions at Sul- grave Manor, seat of George Washington's family; an Astor garden party; a reception in Westminster Hall by Lord Haldane and four onetime Lord Chancellors-Birkenhead, Cave, Finlay, Buckmaster. Saturday, Oxford and Cambridge Universities competed with the Naval Review at Spithead for entertainment honors. Brasenose College, Oxford, received payment of a 17-shilling debt entered in its books against Lawrence, father of George Washington. Mr. Hughes issued a formal statement of appreciation: "An abiding memory of venerable institutions...
...past the American educator could say of the classics, as President Coolidge did of the League, that they were a "dead issue". But significantly enough Latin and Greek have refused to accept this dictum. It is not, therefore, without a keen analysis of the trend of education that Viscont Finlay, former Lord Chancellor of England, upon assuming the Presidency of the Classical Association of Scotland, ventured the opinion that the tide of interest had turned in favor of the classics. That this phenonenon is not purely European is indicated by the increased enrolment in classical courses in American universities...
...Pound Class.--Finlay (Y) defeated E. L. Smith (H). Decision, 8 minutes, 55 seconds...
Report at headquarters at 3 for Yard duty: C. F. Allen, Melville P. Baker, E. Bangs, K. Campbell, A. W. Douglass, R. L. Finlay, R. B. Hamblett, S. S. Jordan, R. E. Larsen, H. MacFadden, C. P. Smith, H. P. Taggard, L. B. Van Ingen...