Word: metting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This game will mark the reopening of relations between Harvard and Pennsylvania in hockey, the two teams not having met for a number of years. Pennsylvania was formerly a regular opponent on the Crimson schedule, but inadequate facilities for holding practice sessions and games forced the Red and Blue to discontinue the ice sport for the past few years. With the erection of a modern arena in Philadelphia, however, the sport has once again been taken up, and this year the Pennsylvania sextet has scheduled games with many of the leading colleges...
Paris buzzed with comment. Within 48 hours, members of the Comite Francais du Tunnel sous la Manche, originally chartered in 1875, met in bustling session. Since new blood was obviously needed after half a century of stagnation, the Comite called in and elected as their president kinetic M. Yves Le Trocquer, recently French Minister of Public Works (1920-25). As Vice President they chose M. Jules Cambon, distinguished statesman and brother of beloved Paul Cambon (1843-1524) who was for 22 years French Ambassador to His Britannic Majesty. When the Committee adjourned to banquet, Jules Cambon, raised a sparkling glass...
...Manhattan, a Commonwealth Opera Association met to promote popular-priced performances through dollar membership subscriptions. Music in Manhattan now, complained Charles Edward Russell of the Association's advisory board, is "standardized, systematized, somewhat trustified and the exclusive possession of the economically fortunate...
...shower with his tutor is answered by exposition of the doctrine that 'One shower bath with a tutee is worth forty weeks of feet on the table and smoking a pipe.' Complaint against the quality of the meal served in one of the House dining rooms is met by the familiar, "Nonsense. Our laboratory experts have discovered that there is nothing better to eat at one o'clock on Thursdays." Finally the newcomer is told that his unit is his club and that if he doesn't like the people in it he is merely proving himself a knocker instead...
Henry Worth (Hank) Thornton was born in Logansport, Ind., in 1871, went to St. Paul's, then to the University of Pennsylvania. At St. Paul's he met James McCrea, whose father was then president of the Pennsylvania railroad. At Pennsylvania, Student Thornton won fame as a line-plunger, helped Penn beat Princeton (1892) and after graduating became football coach at Vanderbilt. He then (1894) entered the Pennsylvania Railroad offices as a draftsman, remained to become (1911) superintendent of the Long Island Railroad...