Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coach Brown said that this arrangement would be followed until after the Spring recess when the University and Second University crews would be picked. He plans to shift the candidates for the stroke and coxswain berths continually in order to get the best men for these positions which are left vacant by the graduation of John Watts '28 and C. H. Pforzheimer '28, stroke and coxswain respectively on last year's eight...
Already the matter of September admission second in importance in this part of the Dean's report, has been discussed and disposed of. Apparently there is nothing left but a consideration of Mr. Hanford's class number three, that of men submitting low admission records. Crucial point that it is, this problem deserves all possible attention; all other explanations of the phenomenon of unsatisfactory college work lead inevitably to the advisability of admitting men with dubious records. No scurrying about after secondary effects should be allowed to distract the attention of those committed to seeing that the right...
...work in Durland's Riding Academy, Manhattan. When Durland's passed a rule that the riding masters had to wear uniforms, John Bowman rebelled, resigned, set up his own small academy. He had few horses and little cash but the venture was prosperous enough when he left it to take charge of wines and cigars in Gustav Bauman's oldtime Holland House. When Bauman put up the Biltmore in 1912, Bowman was its manager. When, ten months later, Bauman died, Bowman took over the hotel. After nursing the Biltmore through a creditor-threatened infancy, Bowman began...
...effervesces songs and, with fleeting pantomime, gives them the quality of fine etchings slightly caricatured. Having risen from the streets of Paris he has the wistfulness of their shadows. The Paris music-halls have given him a touch of rowdiness. The War, in which he was wounded and captured, left him with unbridled spontaneity...
...clear of the ground in a slow ascent. He barely cleared some telegraph wires, a village church steeple. At Bondy Forest, only a few miles from Paris, the motor failed altogether and his plane clattered among the trees. In the rip-up he strained his leg, the only leg left him by the War. Helped to the ground, he exclaimed: "This is a fine to-do! I wonder how far LeBrix is by this time?" Joseph LeBrix had passed Tunis, was almost in Cairo...