Word: meetings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Flyers Chamberlin and Levine hustled to Bremen to meet their respective wives, who arrived from the U. S. Said Mrs. Chamberlin on seeing her husband: "Why, your knickers are awful. Didn't you even have them cleaned?" Then the two couples flew to Berlin in three hops. The two wives were reported to be feeling ill after the first hop. ¶"The Columbia is not on the market," said Mr. Levine when Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, rich U. S. slacker now living in Germany, offered to buy the monoplane. Mr. Bergdoll let it be known that he desires...
...poised for a flight to Paris, waiting only for contrary winds and an Atlantic fog to go away. George O. Noville, Bert Acosta and Berndt Balchen were eager to climb aboard. . . . Meanwhile, despatches from Paris said that Lieutenant Drouhin was ready to fly to New York, hoping to meet Commander Byrd and crew in mid-Atlantic...
...clearly the corollary statement illumines the whole. The growth of Harvard to meet the demands of a country interested in education could easily mean sacrifice of standards, of that atmosphere of scholarly calm and intellectual poise, so often alien to the popular mechanics of education. Harvard has developed height as well as breadth. With more exacting requirements than ever in her history, the College of Arts and Sciences, real and necessary center of an American university, has this startling record of undergraduate fidelity to intellectual interests...
...regatta will be officially opened this afternoon when the combination crews meet. The Harvard combination outfit has not been at all impressive in practice, but the last minute shift which put E. B. Hanley '27 at stroke improves its chance. Hanley, who rowed 7 on the 150-pound crew, is a splendid oar and has great endurance...
Tomorrow at 10 o'clock the Freshman crews will meet in a two-mile upstream clash. Yale is not tremendously powerful, having lost to Princeton, and the Crimson 1930 boat is a slight favorite. Captain Willard's boat, however, has a way of looking pretty in practice and not so fast under fire. In its one race it beat M. I. T. and Pennsylvania, but not by the margin which the difference in the appearance of the crews seemed to warrant...