Word: fourteeners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University polo squad will have its initial meeting at 2 o'clock this afternoon in the Freshman Gymnasium. The first practice of the season for the University riders will be on Monday afternoon, at Soldiers Field. Fourteen aspirants for the Freshman team have already reported and another meeting for any other first year men who wish to try out for the team will be held from 12 to 12.30 today in Room A of the Harvard Union. Captain F. D. Sharp, coach of the two teams, expects a squad of about thirty men for his Freshman team...
...make up for being deaf. Great musicians have been deaf; to sculptors, lack of hearing should surely prove no handicap. Thus, Mrs. Louise Wilder, deaf and somewhat famed sculptor of babies, last week indicated some of the advantages which she has derived from her deficiency. "Having been deaf for fourteen years I have learned to work entirely by myself never hearing the disturbing noises that bother so many artists in big cities. While others must go to the country for solitude, I have it wherever I am. . . . When critics discuss my work, I miss most of the . . . comments...
...weight that he laid upon my family when he accused me of being a friend of prostitution. . . . My record as an opponent of immorality is fixed and secure. Publicly and by many letters in my possession, the late Rev. Canon John P. Peters, when chairman of the Committee of Fourteen, the leading anti-vice society of New York, repeatedly thanked me for my co-operation with that organization. No one in all the 25 years of my public life has ever dared to make the vile suggestions which emanated from Mr. White, with the approval of Henry J. Allen, publicity...
Such seemed the consensus of informed Japanese opinion last week respecting a report unjust, issued by the New York City Anti-Vice Committee of Fourteen...
...York Committee of Fourteen, thought tolerant Japanese last week, probably had in mind not the Geisha, but the Joro. A Japanese male of lowest estate, called an Uma or "horse" imparts in a few moments to the despised Joro such little learning as she, coarse and unfit for Geishahood, is thought to require...