Word: john
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What are the eating arrangements in those English universities which bulk so large in every discussion of the House Plan? Take Emmanuel College, Cambridge, John Harvard's own college. There a charge is imposed for five dinners a week. If a man eats less than five "in Hall" he is wasting money for he is charged for the uneaten meal, even as in the Harvard Houses. Five meals a week, instead of 14! Of course, they must all be dinners: but that is a small hardship because the Cambridge undergraduates have no large city ten minutes away, and they must...
...would shy from the monstrous thing U. S. engineers propose to build for $5,000,000. Who the financiers are, who the builders, was kept secret. That it was a bona fide project Harry Westcott of Westcott & Mapes, Inc., New Haven and Manhattan engineering firm, testified immediately after Governor John H. Trumbull of Connecticut had predicted such a ship at a dinner of New Haven's august Union League Club. Westcott & Mapes are now estimating their bids on the structural work of not one, but two such planes. The builders expect that the first will be wrecked...
...Warsaw, Poland, Moses Feingold, 70, beggar, learned that his brother John, who had emigrated to the U. S., whom he had not seen for 65 years, had bequeathed him $1,000,000. Beggar Feingold went insane...
Lowell Smith's Cross. For demonstrating six years ago the feasibility of air refueling, Capt. Lowell H. Smith last week received his Distinguished Service Flying Cross. His flight companion, Lieut. John P. Richter, already had his Cross...
...Harvard outplayed us and deserved the victory." John M. Cates, Yale athletic director...