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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University, distinguished Strangers, and other Guests specially invited; The Overseers of the University; Professors, Tutors, and Officers of the University; Gentlemen who have received honorary degrees, and who do not come under any regular Class of Graduates; Graduates of the University in the order of their Classes, from the oldest class present, to 1836; Students of the Divinity School, Law School, and Medical School, who are not included above...
...ateau Lafite 1920 and Châateau Haut-Brion 1921. Due to the craze for Champagne, these superb red and white Bordeaux, the wines of connoisseurs, sell commonly for a trifle less than a good bot tle of "bubbly." Of course Bordeaux of the very oldest and greatest years, such as Châateau Yquem 1874 or Châateau Haut-Brion 1875, are well nigh unobtainable at any price. Preferred brands of Champagne are Clicquot Veuve, R. Bollinger and G. H. Mumm. Generally speaking the correspondence of wines to food is : red meat - red wine ; white meat - white wine...
...setting with which we are provided. The President is represented as a stainless Sir Galahad championing the superior ideals of the American people and brought to infinite distress by contact with the awful depravity of Europe and its statesmen. Mr. Baker's film story is, in short, the oldest in the world. It is nothing less and nothing more than the conflict between good and evil, between spiritual conceptions and material appetites, between generosity and greed, between moral earnestness and underhand intrigue, between human sympathy and callous selfishness." Mr. Churchill also grills the whole U. S.: "The American populace...
...illustrated by a quotation of a paragraph from the CRIMSON editorial. "Daily the University is the scene of happenings which affect the outside world. It is false modesty to pretend that the discoveries of Harvard scientists are not of interest to outsiders, that the plans of the oldest and richest university in the country are of no import except to the handful of men who are charged with administering her affairs...
Rich was Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch, eldest of the great Nathaniel Bowditch's (1773-1838) eight children. The Bowditches are among the oldest of U. S. families, descended as they are from one William Bowditch who lived at Salem, Mass., from...