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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Americans of 1925 are prone to think of Calvin Coolidge as unique among presidents for his taciturnity. That such is far from the case, however, is clear from an account of half a century ago in the Magenta, as the CRIMSON was called in its infant years, describing the Lexington and Concord centennial celebration of April 19, 1875. Only a Harvard cheer, "given by a party of undergraduates with great effect considering," was able to evoke from President Grant even "a faint motion of the risible muscles" on that historic occasion. If, as rumor has it, President Coolidge visits Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grant Out-Coolidged Coolidge in Taciturnity According to Magenta's Account of His Concord Appearance in 1875 | 4/4/1925 | See Source »

...went well at Lexington," the CRIMSON's predecessor relates, "but the President and the northwest wind--the latter failing to please because it did blow, and the former because he didn't--but both seem to be unaccountable to any human authority. . . . Our nation's President carried off his one great role of sphinx-like and dignified silence with great effect. We believe that he was not observed to smile during the whole course of the day, except, indeed, when a Harvard cheer saluted him, given by a party of undergraduates with great effect considering. He then gracefully removed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grant Out-Coolidged Coolidge in Taciturnity According to Magenta's Account of His Concord Appearance in 1875 | 4/4/1925 | See Source »

...four-mile relay team will start off the season's schedule when it enters the relay meet at Concord on April 19. It will be the celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the battle of Lexington and Concord and it is possible that the University will have a look at the Dartmouth runners, who are schedule to compete in the affair. Six days later the relay men will journey to the Penn Relays for April 24 and 25 accompanied by a few individual entrants in other events...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPRING TRACK STARTS WITH MEETING TODAY | 4/1/1925 | See Source »

...meeting of the University Hand last Wednesday the officers for the year 1925-26 were elected. They are Ambrose Francis Keeley '27 of Fall River, president: Richard Newton Benjamin '25 of New York, manager; Randolph Piper '27 of Lexington, treasurer; Richard Loud '27 of Belmont, secretary; and Robert Thornton smith '27 of Saco, Me., secretary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band Elects Keeley Leader | 3/28/1925 | See Source »

...Isaac Margolis Barnett, New York City; Aaron Jacob Bronstein, Brookline; Arthur Barton Brown, Roxbury; Ettore Francis Carniglia, Windsor Locks, Conn.; Dana Bennett Durand, Washington, D. C.; Mason Hammond, Nahant; Kyung-Duck Har, Chunju, Korea; Moses Samuel Huberman, Portland, Me.; Raymond Lincoln Kilgour, Lexington; Edward George Lowry Jr., Washington, D. C.; Morris Marden, Winthrop; Howard Parker Sharp; Pittsburgh, Pa.; Bernard Sowman, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Donald Devenish Walsh, Dorchester...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HIGH RANK STUDENTS HAVE FEW ACTIVITIES | 3/9/1925 | See Source »

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