Word: haven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Arrangements for the Harvard-Yale boat races, to be held on Friday, June 22, were completed yesterday in New Haven by officials from Harvard, Yale and the N. Y., N. H., and H. Railroad Company. The race will be rowed at '6 o'clock. Eastern Standard Time, and the course is to be down-stream this year. Although a definite time has been set, the actual beginning of the race will depend, as usual, on the weather and water conditions...
...They haven't touched a word of it," declared Mr. Blinn, "and what is more, a minister came up to me the other day and said that he saw or heard nothing wrong in the play. Many people have thought that the play was a little risque, but with the recommendation of a minister behind it, even Boston cannot make a fuss...
Picketing. Nineteen members of the Yale Liberal Club were arrested by the New Haven police for distributing union literature (which the Yale News described as "a dignified appeal to the intelligence of the community"), during a neckwear workers' strike. The Harvard Liberal Club commended their Yale brethren...
...Haven, Conn., Agnes Maude Royden committed a few witticisms directed, in large part, not at her U. S. detractors but at the inhabitants of England. She said: "It is as easy for an Englishman to say something nice as it is for him to have a tooth pulled. ... In America, candidates 'run' for office, in England they 'stand.' . . . For my part, I pledge myself to return to England and to try to interpret the vast enterprises of your great empire, for that is what you are building up, in the certain belief that a genuine understanding can be built...
...militant organizations of State university alumni in the various important cities of the West appear to be one of the chief causes of the drawing together of the far-flung grads of the institutions at Cambridge, New Haven and Princeton, but other causes are a common interest in the athletic fortunes of the three time-honored Eastern universities, and a tendency to think alike not only on athletic subjects but on educational ideals and standards as they are promulgated at these seats of learning, and there is a social element only at Chicago where, by the way, there...