Word: majority
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same way there is no question of changing the athletic conditions of University life. Harvard will be represented by teams in all the major sports as in the past. The coveted 'H' will mean all that it ever has meant in the life of the undergraduates...
...Governing Board is entrusted with carrying out as far as possible the wishes of Major Higginson, the donor, who conceived of the Union as a general club for Harvard men, undergraduates, members of graduate schools, alumni. The vision of the founder has never been realized; his ideal of a huge gathering-place for half a dozen college generations is one beyond the possibilities or desires of Harvard individualism; but the functions of the Union are no less important for being more limited. Its fate is a concern of all the two thousand five hundred members...
...monthly compilation of records of unemployment, and here in Massachusetts Representative Shattuck has introduced a bill into the legislature to authorize the collection of such data in this state. When that bill has been enacted into law and when the other state legislatures have taken similar action, the first major step in Mr. Hoover's program will have been taken...
Died. Baron Ehrenfried Gunther von Huenefeld, 36, of Berlin, trans-Atlantic flying partner of Capt. Hermann Koehl and Major James E. Fitzmaurice (TIME, April 23); after a stomach operation; in Berlin. His career was brilliant, despite great physical odds. From boyhood his heart was weak; his right, monocled eye was nearly sightless. In the War both his legs were lacerated by shrapnel. He contracted a stomach malady which he knew to be incurable. But he fought bravely, wrote plays and poetry. As a vice consul in Holland he received the fleeing Kaiser. The Crown Prince was his crony. Never married...
...balls and bats constitute no major portion of the Spalding company's present production. In 1892, A. G. Spalding & Bros, acquired Wright & Ditson and A. J. Reach, sporting goods companies, and put itself in an almost monopolistic position to profit from that trend in U. S. life which was to add the football stadium to collegiate architecture and golf .to the businessman's routine. Had the famed football player who wished to die for dear old Rutgers realized his ambition, a Spalding ball would have been found under his corpse. The first Davis Cup tennis matches (1900) were...