Word: gore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the recent addition of over 200 classical books to the College Library, the library of Christopher Gore, of the Class of 1776, is now completely in the possession of Harvard University with the exception of a set of volumes kept as heirlooms by James Gore King '89, who donated the books...
Christopher Gore was one of Harvard's greatest benefactors, and the library which stood on the site of the present Widener Library Building from 1838 until it was torn down in 1912, was built from his bequest to Harvard College. The building was called Gore Hall, and the name was transferred to the dormitory of that name on its erection...
...volumes of classic authors are prized mostly through their associations with Christopher Gore, and the descendants of his friend Rufus King '76: James Gore King I, of the class of 1810, James Gore King II '39, Edward King '53, and James Gore King III '89. The latter is a New York lawyer, and with the approval of his son, J. G. King Jr. '20, gave the books to Harvard...
Hearst's Universal Service, which arranged the sales-tax-study junket, was TIME's source for the information that Senator Gore made a speech at a state dinner in Ottawa, in the course of which he rendered Four & 20 blackbirds Got a little dry . . . etc., etc. On the junket were four and 70 people, including four and 60 members of Congress. Senator Gore added that this party had not come to drink rye. But liquor was served them everywhere except at U. S. Minister Hanford MacNider's tea party. TIME gladly prints Senator Gore's denial...
...these ways the class is assuming a definite personality and a unity which was impossible in previous years when a man in Smith never saw a man who lived in Gore. For many the first year at Harvard is a bewildering experience, it is pleasant to know that the change from the Charles to the Yard has made it a more congenial, more happy period of transition...