Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first time in the history of Harvard debating, the Debating Council will conduct a dual tour during the Spring recess, which will have as its southern terminus, Atlanta, Georgia, and will extend as far west as Grennell, Iowa. The two teams, each composed of three men, will leave at the same time, and will be gone during the week of April...
...western trip will include the University of Chicago; Marquette University, at Milwaukee; Carleton University, at Northfield, Minnesota; and Grennell College, at Grennell, Iowa. A fifth college, with which negotiations are at present being conducted, will also be included in this tour...
...last tour made by the Harvard Debating Council was in the spring of 1927, when a team composed of F. W. P. Lorenzen '28, Barrett Williams '28, and Dwight Chapman '27 went as far west as Des Moines, Iowa, visiting five colleges. They were awarded the audience decision in all but one of their debates...
Clarence Goecke, 12, raised and owned, until last week, the best steer in the U. S. Clarence called the steer Dick. When Dick was calved (July 27, 1927), Clarence paid his father, Fred Goecke of State Centre, Marshall County, Iowa, $55 for the gangling Hereford bull. Thereafter, every day Clarence fed Dick ground corn, cooked barley, oil meal, bran, molasses feed, clover hay. Clarence groomed Dick himself, made Dick's hair curly with a special comb, helped make him a steer...
Last summer Clarence led Dick to the Marshall County Fair; Dick won the grand champion steer prize. Then Clarence led Dick to the Iowa State Fair at Des Moines; Dick won third prize. Both prizes brought Clarence $148 cash. Someone offered Clarence $1 a pound for Dick on the hoof. Clarence's father said sell; Clarence said no, he wanted to exhibit Dick at the International Live Stock Show at Chicago. And to Chicago last week he led Dick...