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...Story of Gay Leonard-for it is far more her story than Dolly Quinn's - makes one of the better contemporary novels.- She is one of those astonishingly fragile moths, dusted with gold, who first distract football behemoths at col lege proms; then able young busi ness men at country club week ends; then men-about-town, reputable and otherwise. These moths cease to discriminate as their pow er and need of distraction increase. Sometimes they alight safely, their powdery gold dusts away and they become more or less plumply con tented. Other times, especially if their wits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Aug. 29, 1927 | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

ness men who are able to aid the colleges, "He had a deep loye for his col lege and he helped his college in many ways in token of that love...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXTERNAL CONTROL IS ADVOCATED BY MURRAY | 10/15/1926 | See Source »

...lege generations will produce? What is the limit of our collegians? I would not care to prognosticate on such a subject, but there is a further contrast in I. C. A. A. A. A. winning performances which indicates that the intrusion of the world war may have figured in slowing up the development of the athletes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOWDOIN AND TECH TRACK COACHES WRITE ON HALF CENTURY OF I.C.4A. COMPETITION | 5/21/1926 | See Source »

...large part of my income is derived, I have determined to give the residue of my property to public purposes, and I wish, in so doing, to devote it to an institution to which my children have been indebted; and I can think of none better than Harvard Col- lege, at which both my sons graduated, one in the class of 1887 and the other in the class of 1890. I therefore . . . do hereby give the residue of my estate . . . to the President and Fellows of Harvard College, the income of one molety to be applied for the purpose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEQUEATHS LARGE SUM TO UNIVERSITY | 10/29/1924 | See Source »

...meeting was held in New York on Tuesday by representatives of Columbia, Yale, Princeton and the triangular col- lege chess league, composed of Cornell, Brown, and Pennsylvania, at which articles of a deed of gift to govern hereafter, the Rice international chess trophy were drawn up. The University was not represented...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLUMBIA WON CHESS | 1/3/1907 | See Source »

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