Word: lating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lafayette, we are here." Perhaps he would have caused an even greater thrill had he said, "Lafayette, nous sommes arrivés." But it remained for another U. S. soldier and statesman to make so perfect a gesture. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, after taking oath last week on his late great father's presidential Bible as ninth U. S. civil governor at San Juan. Porto Rico, spoke in Spanish the first 200 words of his inaugural speech. The remainder of the speech was delivered in English, but inasmuch as no previous U. S. governor of Porto Rico had ever spoken...
...bilingual twist, the new governor's speech might not have been considered extraordinary. The Colonel recalled how his late, great father, only U. S. president to visit Porto Rico, had called the island "the Switzerland of America." He referred to his duties as ''our work," asked for "team-play, shoulder to shoulder...
...line which is slated to face the West Pointers is rugged and powerful. O'Connell and Ogden will fill the right and left end positions which they have been holding all week. The question of the guard and tackle posts, which has been something of a mystery of late, seems to have been answered by the assignment of W. Ticknor and Davis respectively to these two positions on the right side of the line. B. Ticknor will take care of his duties at center, while Trainer and Barrett will oppose Perry, the Army's gigantic All-American right tackle. Putnam...
Professor Palmer has spoken in public very infrequently of late and he has intimated that this perhaps may be his last formal lecture...
According to C. F. Getchell, general manager of the Harvard Athletic Association, there has been a tremendous demand for tickets to the Army game this Saturday. Although the total number of tickets available were not all subscribed for until the late applications came in, probably a quarter of a million seats could be sold, were there that many in the Harvard Stadium...