Word: piers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University Unit for service at the American Ambulance Hospital in Paris will sail this morning for Gibraltar on the Canopic from the the Commonwealth Pier in East Boston. They will serve for three months until June...
...Elocution will take place in Sanders Theatre, Thursday evening, May 21, at 8 o'clock. The following men have been chosen judges: Mayor Curley, Robert Bacon '80, Fellow of Harvard College and formerly Secretary of State and Ambassador to France, James F. Curtis '99, of Boston, Arthur S. Pier '95, of Milton, William L. Putnam '82, of Boston, James H. Ropes '89, Hollis Professor of Divinity, and Dexter Lecturer on Biblical Literature in the University, and Dr. Henry P. Walcott '58, of Cambridge, Fellow of Harvard College. They will award two first prizes of $30 each, and three second prizes...
Despite recent losses which greatly weakened them, the University swimming team held Amherst to a 33 to 20 victory Saturday night at Ocean Pier tank. As was expected Nelligan of Amherst proved the star of the meet taking first place in the 50- and 220-yard dashes. The most exciting race of the evening was the 100-yard dash in which all four entries remained abreast for about three quarters of the distance when Huthsteimer of Amherst pulled ahead and won by inches from Captain Wentworth. A. F. Pickernell '14 had the distinction of being the only...
...University swimming team will meet Amherst in the Ocean Pier tank at Revere tonight at 8 o'clock. Since mid-years the University team has been seriously handicapped by the loss of first string men who went on probation or on the sick list. The weekness of the team was recently shown in the meet with Andover when the University team secured only two first places. Amherst relies chiefly on the freshmen, who compose the greater part of the team, to defeat Harvard. Their greatest strength lies in Nelligan, who competes in all the short races and has been...
Some quaint and amusing side-lights on old-fashioned Harvard are given in the "Journal of Jasper Danckaerts" and in Arthur Standwood Pier's "The Story of Harvard," both of which have recently been published. Much of Harvard's hold upon her sons is due to the great body of tradition which is her inheritance, and the two books will add much to the undergraduate's realization of what has gone before...