Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Spanish-so they said. We discovered it at the head of a column of odds and ends in the Picayune the first day (in New Orleans); heard twenty people use it the second; inquired what it meant the third; adopted it and got facility in swinging it the fourth...
...White House the President summoned High Tariff Lieutenant-General Watson and Generalissimo Smoot. He asked first one, then the other about prospects of Tariff Bill early passage in the Senate. Mournfully Senator Watson predicted that the special tariff session of the Senate would end without passing any Tariff Bill. Less pessimistic. Senator Smoot conceded a "chance" of a final Senate vote on the tariff next month...
Enough of what cadets did in the past. There are a few stunts which are pulled year after year. Every year on the morning of graduation, the entire first class assembles in the area of barracks (the quadrangle) and holds an informal parade. The band leads them around and around the area; and they follow in any formation and in any uniform they choose. The uniforms range from two victrola records, silk lingerie, and so forth, to over coats, boots, and wash basins. A similar parade is conducted by the cadets in summer camp at reveille the Fourth of July...
...runners had little difficulty in downing the New Hampshire freshmen 22 to 33 in the preliminary. R. R. Wesley '33 and A. Foote '33 crossed the line in first and second position...
...first ten men to finish in the University run were: Hazen (N. H.); G. M. Barrie '32; N. P. Hallowell '32; Lazare (N.H.); B. E. Estes '32; R. C. Aldrich '31; J. M. Fox'31; David Cobb '31; Noyes (N.H.); Richardson...