Word: marbleheaders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That students from Chicago are acquiring new virtues in Cambridge, is well shown by the tale of the two young Harvard graduates from that great town who found themselves down to their last traveller's checque in Marblehead last summer. Walking along the less yachty reaches of the waterfront reaches despair they saw some fishermen unloading quintals of fresh cod from a smack, offering them at a very low price...
...haste toward Chicago. For a whole day they sped towards the Mid-Western metropolis with their fish. In a small hamlet near Erle, Pa., they stopped and put in a long-distance call to several of the largest Chicago hotels, clubs, and restaurants, telling each, "We are just leaving Marblehead, Massachusetts, with a truckload of fresh haddock, which we guarantee to have in Chicago in ten hours, by plane, train, and truck relays. Our prices are only a few cents over the Chicago market price. May we offer, etc....". By the next morning they had driven to Chicago, and sold...
...have remarked before on the strenuous pastimes of A. Lawrence Lowell, President emeritus. Many Harvard boys pride themselves on their prowess during Marblehead Race week, on their skill in trimming a lib, or on their strength on the main sheet, leaving their Socratic mentors in the Yard to find them new questions for the winter bluebook season. But they do not leave Dr. Lowell behind. Harvard's honored ex-president spent three days of July cruising from Mr. Desert Island in Maine, to Marlon on the Cape, and had so much animal spirits left when he arrived there that...
...Marblehead High...
This week the historical tours group conducted by G. S. Miller, professor of Government at Tufts, will visit Salem. Marblehead, and Marblehead Neck on the all-day trip Saturday, July 29. At 8.30 o'clock special busses will take the party from Sever Hall to Salem where the Ropes Memorial, the House of Seven Gables, the Piencer Village, and the Peabody Museum will be visited. At noon the party will go to Marblehead where the quaint streets, the old buildings, and the harbor are the principal attractions. Tickets which include all expenses except lunch can be purchased at the Summer...