Word: mentor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...state in a recent issue that Eliot House will be the only House to have an "individual coach" (one wonders whether a coach can be more than an individual) for its "exclusive boating club" ("for it's jolly boating weather") you do a grave injustice to my quondam mentor and still esteemed friend, the Head Tutor of Lowell House, whose services to the crew, back in '31, still live vividly in the recollections of those privileged to row in that remarkable boat. Has the present generation forgotten that breath-taking race against Dunster House for the Thunder Mug (the original...
...brewers of your city are preparing to really to the aid of the drought-stricken multitude by making beer, and not just more of the current mouth wash?" Not without a twinkle, our acquaintance assured him that insofar as he could ascertain, the news was of true report. His mentor's slow "Ah-" of satisfaction was released more gently than perfecto smoke...
Casey's new position will not interfere in any way with his activities as Harvard's mentor of football. In the past he has always been connected with amateur rather than professional sports, this being his first venture in the professional boxing line. Taking the place of Eugene Buckley, whose term as commissioner came to an end on December 4, 1931, Casey will serve on the boxing commission with Thomas Niland, of Lynn, whose term expires next October, and with Lieutenant-General Alfred F. Foote, retired, honorary chairman of the commission and director of public safety of the Commonwealth...
Reports to the effect that Jaakko Mikkola, cross-country mentor, and assistant track coach, is to coach the Finnish Olympic track and field athletes when they arrive in this country in June to compete in the Olympic games at Los Angeles were absolutely denied by the Crimson coach yesterday. Mikkola said that he will do no coaching whatsoever, but will merely arranged the trip to the West for the Finnish group and accompany the athletes to Los Angeles...
...vote for the President of France, who shall vote first is determined by opening the dictionary at random. Last spring the dictionary opened at L. Alphabetically no other L name in the National Assembly could beat Laval. Having cast the first vote Premier Laval saw his shaggy old mentor Aristide Briand heartbreakingly defeated for the Presidency, which fell to water-drinking, penny-pinching Paul Doumer...