Word: lately
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...marked batting slump which the Harvard diamond forces have taken during the last few clashes has caused Coach F. G. Mitchell to try out several different combinations in an attempt to build up a more powerful offensive. The left and right field assignments have been quite undecided of late, and tomorrow's game will most probably find two newcomers to these parts on the field. E. R. Todd '29, a regular on the second University team who was recently promoted to the field squad, is likely to alternate with A. G. Whitney '29 in the left field region, usually covered...
...second prize, consisting of $400, accrues to Dr. Spinden for his book, "The Reduction of Maya Dates." The awards were established by J. P. Loubat in 1893 and are given to those judged worthy, every five years. First prize this year went to the late Professor H. L. Osgood, of Columbia University...
...value of these transatlantic excursions is rather less widely accepted now than at the time of their introduction, for, like so many of the lofty ideas accepted without question under the stress of circumstances, they have been viewed askance of late by the new philosophers of pessimism. Whatever the final verdict, there is one serious lack in the awards instituted shortly after the war, that is being to some extent replaced. The concession to the spirit of 1918 in omitting the countries recently enemies of the United States needs no longer to be made, and the number of American students...
...gangplank of the S. S. George Washington there shambled, last fortnight, an unkempt, lanky man whose profile somewhat resembles that of the late famed Robert Louis Stevenson. Fellow passengers took small note of the droopy, bedraggled mustache, the old fashioned spectacles, the somewhat scrawny neck girt by a casual tie. Why should they? Not one American in ten thousand has ever heard of John Dewey...
Died. George A. Newett, 72, publisher of Iron Ore; at Ishpeming, Mich., after a long illness. In 1913 the late President Theodore Roosevelt sued him for libel, for having described the Roosevelt julep bed, and accused him of intemperance. Editor Newett lost the $10,000 suit, was fined...