Word: lea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good sportsmanship. The taunt of one utterly lacking the first instinct of a gentleman, "never to hurt the feelings of another, be it individual or nation." I ask you and your readers to laugh at that letter, as the outpouring of a liverish and bitterly disagreeable person. . . . GILBERT TYNDALE-LEA...
Professor Sargent died at his home. "Holm Lea," in Brookline yesterday, following a short illness of only two weeks, up to which time he had gone to the Arboretum every day. He had been in charge of the Arboretum since it was created in 1872 from a bequest of John Arnold to Harvard for that purpose. This was the most important of the many tasks connected with the progressing study of horticulture and forestry which he undertook. He conducted the first census of the forest resources of the United States, which led to the first federal action of importance...
Last week was announced a change in Colonel Thompson's proposed itinerary. The emissary has abandoned his proposed three weeks' visit to China, and will now lea,ve Manila on Oct. 6 on the Steamship
Battle. The British auxiliary Kiawo at once opened fire on the land batteries, and all three British warships steamed close to the captured British merchantmen, in an effort to rescue their officers and passengers. The Kiawo steamed under the lea of the Wanhsien and effected a rescue of all Occidentals on board after a hand to hand fight with the Chinese. General Yang's well directed artillery fire made it impossible to board the Wantung, but the British warships stood by at a distance and picked up the Wantung's crew and passengers who leaped overboard...
Four ends figured for Princeton in Saturday's game, and all of them will again don togs next year. Lea and Moeser are both Sophomores, while their substitutes on Saturday, Jeffers and Newman, both have one more year to spend on the Nassau campus...