Word: halle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...temporal State as well as a heavenly kingdom, such mundane things as state receptions and banquets are in order at the Vatican. Last week Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, beetle-browed secretary of the Papal State, signalized the new era with his first diplomatic luncheon. Gathered in stately Vestments Hall were 60 ambassadors and ministers in full dress, wearing swords and decorations. Present too were white-ruffled, silk-stockinged Papal chamberlains, noble guards, Officers of the Swiss Guard and Papal Grenadiers. Never before had such a great gathering been seen at a Vatican function. The menu at what pious Italians have come...
...addition to his horse breeding, Mr. Billings was famed also for his yachts, his pictures, and for Tyron Hall, his two-million-dollar estate on upper Riverside Drive. Once, when he had accumulated so many Old Masters that the walls of his new California estate would not accommodate them all, he sold 31 canvases, including eight Corots, for $410,000. In 1917 John D. Rockefeller Jr. bought Tyron Hall, gave it to the city...
...5bHarvard 6 Botany 14 Botan. Museum 28 Chemistry A Adlis-Lyman Mallinckrodt Large Lecture Rm. McCarthy-Zoll Pierce 110 Chemistry 3b Mallinckrodt Medium Rm. Chemistry 21 Mallinckrodt Medium Rm. Chinese 1 Sever 30 Economics 14 Sever 30 Engin. Sciences 7b. Pierce 307 English 3b Emerson J English 29b Memorial Hall Fine Arts 1d New Fogg Lect. Rm. French 7 Emerson D Geology 8 Harvard 6 German 1b Dr. Heffner's section 1 Sever 5 Mr. Evans's section 2 Atkinson-Gaffney Sever 5 Mr. Evans's section 2 Hale-Young Sever 6 Mr. McCoy's section 3 Sever 6 German...
...sweeping change in the regulations top readmission was effected by a recent vote of the Administrative Board announced yesterday at University Hall. With present regulations in effect the number of men readmitted as Freshmen will be reduced to a negligible quantity...
...Harvard became Radcliffe's president in 1903 Radcliffe's resources consisted of three buildings and money for a fourth and funds, including scholarships, of less than $500,000. He immediately addressed himself to the financial needs. First came a library; then a dormitory to stand next to Bertram Hall in the new quadrangle on Shepard Street. By 1908 these were built and in use; by 1914 two other dormitories were built and occupied. After the war Dean Briggs undertook to add $1,000,000 to the college endowment, and at his last commencement as president, in 1923, he announced...