Word: held
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this year (not Harvard), informed us that he had written Yale and that they were "not interested" in holding the debate, presumably because it was not included on the League schedule and would have meant extra preparation and expense. Moreover he said that the debate could not be held at Princeton before vacation because of conflicting engagements and that hence "it would be better to omit the meeting this year...
...totally bare of comforts. It contained no carpet, no stuffed furniture, no bookcase. The college library furnished the volumes he was at any time using, and these lay along the floor, beside his dictionary, his shoes, and the box that contained the sick chicken. A single bare table held the book he had just laid down, together with a Greek newspaper, a silver watch, a cravat, a paper package or two, and some scraps of bread...
...taste was more than usually sensitive, kept fine and discriminating by the restraint in which he held it. Indeed, all his senses, except sight, were acute. The wine he drank was the delicate unresinated Greek wine,--Corinthian, or Chian, or Cyprian; the amount of water to be mixed with each being carefully debated and employed. Each winter a cask was sent him from a special vineyard on the heights of Corinth, and occasioned something like a general rejoicing in Cambridge, so widely were its flavourous contents distributed...
...last meeting of elected members will be held at the Phillips Brooks House tomorrow evening at 7.15 o'clock. W.I. Nichols '26, Assistant Dean in charge of Freshmen, M.W. Ware '02, and H.W. Ogden, well-known Boston attorney will be the speakers at the meeting...
...finals of the Pasteur Debate held last night in the Large Lecture Room of the New Fogg Museum, D.D. Lloyd '31 won first place with H.A. Wolff '29 getting honorable mention...