Word: parkers
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High praise is the keynote of the review by H. T. Parker '89 of the University Glee Club's performance last night of Brahms' "Requiem," conducted by M. Serge Koussevitsky. Mr. Parker, writing in the Transcript, describes the performance, by the Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society, as follows...
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Garrard Winston is, like Reparations Commissioner S. Parker Gilbert, a young man. Last week, he boarded the Aquitania at Manhattan, set off across the Atlantic. The weather was fair. A pleasant trip was predicted. His business? To talk a little, and, if possible, to do a little about collecting European debts...
Among the other celebrities slated to attend are J. Harleston Parker '93, former President of the Lampoon; Morton Stimson '82, who was one of the resuscitators of the Lampoon after its year's lapse following its foundation in 1876; Louis Silvers, coach of "Laugh It Off," the forthcoming Hasty Pudding Club show; Matthew Luce '91, Regent of the University; J. W. D. Seymour '17; Thomas W. Slocun '90, former president of the Harvard Club of New York; Roger L. Scaife '97; and J. T. Coolidge...
...Poland the $1,500,000 which Polish Silesians had paid to the Berlin Government as premiums on compulsory social insurance. Germany did not object, but a reminder from the Polish Government in January that the amount was shortly falling due elicited this reply from Berlin : "Apply to S. Parker Gilbert [Agent General of Reparations] to have the amount deducted from the reparations payments." The matter came to light, last week, when Secretary General of the League, Sir Eric Drummond, informed the Agent General and the German Government that the Council will discuss in its June session Germany's failure...
...results of another prize contest, the Sears awards for debate and political question, were announced yesterday. A first prize of $100 was won by Howard Parker Sharp '25 of Pittsburgh, Penn. and a second prize of $25, by Paul Whitcomb Williams '25 of New Bedford...