Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...campaigning last week which resulted in the addition of 353 graduates. John W. Prentiss '98, Eliot Wadsworth '98 and Thomas W. Slocum '90 doubled their original $25,000 subscriptions. The Endowment Fund committee hopes that a number of other men will follow their example, thereby raising the grand total considerably...
Music is the keynote of the bill at Keith's this week. Marguerita Sylva formerly of the Paris Grand Opera Company, leads the program in a repertoire of her own songs, while Mary Haynes, comedienne, offers what proves to be a very popular set of "Exclusive Songs and Stories." The Russian Cathedral Singers, a quartette from the city of Moscow also contribute some well-received vocal selections...
...usual play let consists this week of a comedy drama entitled "The Fall of Eve." with Mabel Cameron. Alan Devitt and C. Carroll Clucas. Harry and Emma Sharrock do some clever work as "The Fair Ground Fakirs Behind the Grand Stand," while Madame Jewell's Mannikins in a "Circus Day in Toyland" are liberally applauded. The rest of the bill is made up of Ramsdell and Deyo, MeLoud and Norman, and Stephens and Hollister...
...Board. He is a member of a number of important mechanical and electrical societies and one of the founders of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the American Electro-Chemical Society. The Aero Club of France awarded him first prize in 1914, and in 1915 he took the Grand Prize at the San Francisco International Exposition for gyro-compass and gyroscopes. One of the most interesting of Mr. Sperry's awards is his decoration for navigational equipment by the late ex-Czar Nicholas of Russia...
...special wire, connected with the Western Union's countrywide service, will bring complete election returns to the Living Room of the Union. The separate returns as they come in from every state and section of the country will be announced from the platform by megaphone, while the grand totals will be figured on a large blackboard. The University Band will play at intervals throughout the evening until 11 o'clock. It has been arranged to telephone the totals of the returns, as they are received at the Union, to the Graduate School of Education until 10 o'clock...