Word: penns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Trials for the Marquette, Williams, and University of Pennsylvania debates will be held the week after the Pittsburgh debate. All men who argue against Marquette, Williams, or Penn automatically become eligible for the try-outs to be held early in March, from which the teams making the dual Spring trip will be chosen. In order to become eligible for the Spring tryouts, candidates for the team must have participated in at least one University debate...
...triangular meet with Brown and Holy Cross on May 4, replacing the usual meet with M. I. T., is one of the feature events on the spring track schedule which has been announced by the Athletic Association. For the past few years the Penn Relays during the last week of April have been followed by a dual meet with M. I. T. on the first Saturday in May. This meet, however, has usually been very onesided with the result that the Athletic Association has undertaken the triangular meet as an innovation for the outdoor season...
...duty at the gates receive parcels of stuff which are delivered in person. One old lady rode up from the country in a motor car which must have been any age at the outbreak of the late War, and demanded to be taken in front of Lord Dawson of Penn, the King's chief physician. She was handled tactfully, and when she realized that she was unable to see the great doctor she disclosed that she had brought up a jar containing a mixture of linseed, aromatic herbs and toad's blood which she had religiously stirred through the night...
...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...
Died. The Noble Earls of Howe and of Egmont, on the same day. Richard George Penn Curzon, 67, fourth Earl of Howe, was Hon. Treasurer of the Allied Forces in wartime, 1914-1915; descendant of General Howe of American Revolutionary fame; onetime Lord-in-Waiting to Queen Victoria; and Lord Chamberlain tc Queen Alexandra. Charles John Perceval. 70, ninth Earl of Egmont, had been merchant mariner, mounted policeman in Natal, border customer in Zululand...