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Charlesbank Harvard is already an Olympia. In Europe you are shown plenty of places not half as magnificent. And of course a year hence, when Eliot House dominates the vista, it will be still more impressive. Of Lowell House only the tower is seen from the river, but what that House loses in water view it gains in privacy and quiet. And the tower itself! What happy stroke of artistry decreed its color scheme? See it for the first time on a summer's day of blithe blue air, with white clouds flying, and you will think...
...heat stroke, heart failure, drownings. Waitresses in ABC and Lyons' shops refused to serve men in shirtsleeves, later capitulated. Naked urchins were chased from fountains by perspiring bobbies. Traffic was suspended on the London & North Eastern Railway when rails expanded out of gauge. Under the glass roof of Olympia the British Confectioners' Exposition was abandoned when tons of chocolate creams melted in gooey puddles...
...Olympia, Wash., to see about opening a new church but when I came back I entered the hospital to have my nose fixed. I held up my entry into the hospital because I knew that Sister was having her face lifted the same as I had done before. We both had face lifts. There's nothing wrong in that, is there...
...Hubert S. Howe (Columbia neurologist), William Lowe Bryan (President of Indiana University). During this ceremony each boy was permitted to step up to a microphone and speak his name and State. There was a banquet at which they formally met last year's winner, Wilber Brotherton Huston of Olympia, Wash., M. I. T. sophomore. There was also a dance to which the Edisons invited 52 of New Jersey's nicest young ladies. "Alabama" picked out the one he wanted from a newspaper picture the day before...
...Haarlem, Holland, discovered in a ditch, badly smashed, the car in which their servants had preceded them. The servants were unhurt. Later in the day on Kager Lake a speed launch carrying the younger members of the party, blew up, badly burned and bruised two, nearly capsized the yacht Olympia on which the senior Hohenzollerns were cruising...