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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Friday found the Harvard team up against Virginia University which furnished the stiffest opposition of the entire stay but Coach Cowle's men managed to eke out a 5 to 4 victory in a series of matches in which much sparkling tennis was displayed. The two teams divided the singles matches and it was Harvard's 2 to 1 edge in the doubles that gave them victory. The feature matches were Whitbeck's defeat by C. Alphonso Smith, national star and Ingraham's three set victory over Taylor...
...otherwise supplied numerous comic touches and deserves whatever laurels are awarded the leading spirit. No, wait a minute those laurels will have to be divided with Marshall Stearns '30 whose broad portrayal of the heroine's mother was an equally bright piece of work. W. W. Ryan '30 found that filling the shoes of the late lamented Messrs. Wilson and Melcher was no easy job. In the face of an insurmountable handicap he did a creditable...
...President Hoover has no use. Last week he prepared to put his new military aides-Lieut. Col. Campbell B. Hodges, U.S.A. and Capt. Allen Buchanan, U.S.N.-to work. Col. Hodges reported for duty last week at the White House from West Point, where he was Commandant of Cadets. He found a shiny new desk awaiting him in the executive offices. Similar equipment will be ready for Captain Buchanan when he comes to the White House from the U. S. S. Omaha in a few weeks...
...Coolidge sought to avoid the appearance of selfish "grasping for office." Presidents, he found, "are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly . . . assured of their greatness. They live in an artificial atmosphere of adulation and exaltation which sooner or later impairs their judgment. They are in grave danger of becoming careless and arrogant...
Citizen Coolidge said he was careful to take no part in the primary campaigns. He found no reason for his participation for "the party had plenty of [presidential] material . . . and the candidate should really be the choice of the people themselves." He admitted that a President could nominate his successor, but such a nomination, he felt, would often prove a handicap to the nominee...