Word: latters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first of these races, the Torpids, are rowed in heavy eights in the fixed seats and alternated seating, the second on slides in center-seated light "shells." These latter races are by far the more important and the week during which they are rowed is known as "Eights week". It constitutes a social event of no mean importance in the life of the undergraduate. It is then that his family and lady friends, the two sometimes clash, expect, to be invited to Oxford, taken out in punts and given tea on the barge...
...official Dartmouth, as was supposed, but from W. S. O'Gorman of Manchester, N. H., who wrote to H. R. Beneagh. Director of Athletics at Hanover. W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics at the University, and Lon Little, Georgetown coach, proposing this novel form of flood relief. The latter accepted the invitation, but Mr. Bingham and Mr. Heneagh were obliged to decline for the respective reasons that the Stadium is available only for undergraduate activities and that the Dartmouth-team has definitely finished its reason...
...with Marie Louise, a great friend of Constance's. Constance knows of the liaison but has decided to ignore it as long as she can. The situation comes to a head, however, when Mortimer, husband of Marie Louise, bursts in, and accuses John and Marie Louise before Constance. The latter, clever lady, concocts a magnificent alibi for her husband and his mistress, and Mortimer goes away, abject, to buy his wife a string of pearls, as heart-balm for his suspicions of her. Constance then advises Marie Louise and Mortimer to go away for a year, which they...
...foreign loans strengthen the arms of those he contends are ready to strike the U. S.: "It is reported throughout the European press that the German cartel, the I. G. (Interessen Gemeinschaft Farbenindustrie), has, through exchange of stock, merged with the Norwegian Hydro-Electric Co. and that the latter is contemplating a great expansion of its operations for fixation of nitrogen through a loan of $20,000,000 which it expects to get through one of the great American banking organizations.* "Is it right?" questioned Dr. Herty, "that the savings of our people should be directed by this institution...
Charles Eliot Norton's unique place in the affections of Harvard men was indicated by Le Baron R. Briggs '75, dean of the College during the latter part of Norton's professorship, when he said recently that wherever Harvard men gathered 20 years ago two names were most often heard, those of N. S. Shaler '62, former professor of geology, and of Professor Norton...