Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...permanent Treasurer of the Class of 1929, Alan Richardson Sweezy of Englewood, New Jersey, prepared at Exeter. He is at present president of the Harvard CRIMSON, secretary of the Student Council, and has been chairman of the Student Advisory Committee. Robeson Bailey of Philadelphia, who is the newly elected Poet, prepared at Hill and is president of the Advocate. He played on his Freshman basketball and tennis teams...
Died. George Henry Jones, 56, chairman of the board of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, of Pelham, N. Y.; from intestinal obstruction after a lingering illness, in Manhattan. Mr. Jones, native of Carthage, N.Y., was successively mill boy, factory worker, messenger, typewriter salesman, Standard Oilman (35 years). A tireless worker, he abjured recreations until his soth birthday when his fellow directors gave him golf clubs. He was elected to the chairmanship in 1925; simultaneously his health began to fail...
Football writers are sentimental artists who enjoy calling things what they are not. Thus they speak of the Princeton team as "Tigers," though no live, wild tiger has been seen near New Jersey for many millions of years and they refer to the team which plays for the University of Nebraska as "Cornhuskers," merely for want of a better name. Last week, Coach Bearg and the Nebraska squad boarded a special train for West Point; on the squad were 34 men, though one of them, Willard Urban, who lost a coin toss to be the last man taken...
...Pennsy spins its tracks. Every passenger, dining on a crack New York-Philadelphia train, knows he is eating Pennsy food, sitting on a Pennsy chair, riding in a Pennsy car on Pennsy wheels. But not every passenger knows he is riding over the lines of the United New Jersey Railroad & Canal...
...United N. J. R. R.'s $20,876,800 outstanding capital stock. And dire would be the confusion should Pennsy break this Methuselean lease. Passengers from Philadelphia would climb out at the N. Y.-N. J. state line at Trenton, pray for motor lorries to carry them to Jersey City, whence they might proceed through Pennsy tunnels to Manhattan...