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When suddenly I discovered the reason for the cameras. It seems that there is a custom in Cambridge when April with her showers sleety has allowed a short hiatus in the vernal equinox--and the custom is this, young and old tall and short, discreet and indefinite--all take each other's picture. Where proud the shaft of the monument on the common lifts its granite head, there I saw two girls with their boy friends taking each other's pictures with frank abandon. So mirror will be the richer soon by one enlarged, unretouched photograph of Mazie...
...originally organized, an entirely new board went in each September, but the lack of experience from which it necessarily suffered was so great a handicap as to make some change necessary. The first step in modifying this complete hiatus between the retiring and incoming boards was to elect three men in March who belonged to the small class that had entered after the previous mid-year period. To strengthen further the continuity thus established, it was decided this year to take on three men from the regular class after their first term. Positions on the board are now held...
...organization of all college athletics, football and basketball may well have superseded baseball in popular favor purely through being more spectacular. The movement to engage all schoolboys and college men in some form of athletics, the wide publicity given to the Olympic Games of 1920 and 1924 (after the hiatus 1912-1920) and to Paavo ("Flying Finn") Nurmi when he visited the U. S. after those Games, may well have been factors making track and field sports momentarily more popular than baseball. The crowded condition of many city playgrounds was cited as a contributing cause for the decline. The great...
Then he stepped off the stage. The induction of Mr. Walker was gradual. He took the oath of office three days in advance in order that there might be no hiatus in the mayoralty (his term technically began on the stroke of 12:00 on New Year's Eve). The ceremony was attended by some 200 friends. The mayor elect was an hour and a half late for the ceremony because he had been attending a funeral...
...pleasant evening when he set sail soaring up from Long Island, headed across to Jersey and westward toward Pennsylvania. Then there was a hiatus in the record. At midnight Bellefonte, Pa., (where there is the first relay field of the transcontinental air mail) began to look for him. Charles H. Ames was a veteran pilot, he was seldom late. An hour passed and the officials became a little anxious for the schedule of the mail. Clouds were lowering. Periodically there was rain. The telephone rang in a little hut at the emergency landing field at Hartleton, a few miles away...