Word: held
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brown University one evening last week, in oldtime Sayles Memorial Hall where chapel is held, some 1,000 graduates gathered to sit on couches and chairs brought in to make them feel like "just one big family." Master of ceremonies was Everett Colby, '97, Manhattan lawyer. He introduced one of whom all there had heard, his classmate Alumnus John Davison Rockefeller Jr. Alumnus Colby said that Alumnus Rockefeller "runs a gas station somewhere down near New York" and assured the gathered company that "John would be pleased to meet any member of the alumni who needs a million dollars...
...watched. Black Diamond spied them, gave Pickett a malevolent look, wrapped him in his trunk and tossed him over a box car. The nine-ton beast then smashed Mrs. Donohue to the ground, trampled the life out of her. When Pickett had been sent to the hospital, keepers held a council, wired to Circus Owner John Ringling for advice. Mr. Ringling condemned Black Diamond to death. The keepers tried to feed him poisoned oranges but he was wary. They considered drowning him. Finally they took him. shackled between three other elephants- to a cotton field, chained him to two trees...
...County Fair, Kingston, N. C., a cat-washing contest was held last week. Superviser was D. Eugene Wood, famed Carolina sportsman, who claims to have seen a flight of white crows, who advocates stocking the State's eastern swamps with 10,000 goats to eliminate underbrush and provide new game. Excerpts from Sportsman Wood's cat-washing rules...
...opening tea of the group is to be held in Fogg Art Museum, Friday afternoon, from 4.30 to 6 o'clock...
Reginald Henry Phelps of Southwick was chosen first marshal of the Phi Beta Kappa at the first meeting of the year which was held recently, it was announced yesterday. At the same time Edmund Callis Berkeley of New York City was elected to the position of second marshal...