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...knows where rodeos started. Prescott, Ariz. held a championship cowboy contest on July 4, 1888. Pecos City, Tex., claims to have had an earlier one. Cheyenne's Frontier Days fiesta, though it has since become better known than Prescott's, started nine years later. Long before any of these, rodeos were part of fiestas in Mexico. There are now over 400 places in the U. S. which hold annual rodeos. Most famed are Cheyenne Frontier Days, the Pendleton Roundup, the Calgary Stampede, Fort Worth Rodeo, the Cowboys' Reunion at Las Vegas, N. Mex. Originally, rodeo events, like...
...work on Harvard Street has caused no small inconvenience to Harvard Men who live on Prescott Street and vicinity as all those avenues which open into Harvard Street have been necessarily made dead end, one way roads, as exit into Harvard Street has been impossible. Traffic along Harvard Street into Boston has been rerouted via Massachusetts Avenue and Broadway, and motorists wishing to cross Harvard Street from Mass Avenue have been forced to go nearly to Central Square before a crossing may be made...
...Nazi, while far from pleasant looking, was not deformed by a Cyrano nose as this picture suggests. It would almost seem as though the editors . . . had sought by fair means or foul to obtain a picture which would fit the character of a monster of sensuality. . . . EDWIN HYDE LAMBERT Prescott, Ariz...
...went to the Territorial Senate. After a year at the University of Michigan (1903?04) studying law and political economy, he returned to Williams where he married Elizabeth McEvoy Renoe and was made district attorney of Coconino County in 1904. Five years later he moved to Prescott to pursue private practice. In 1912, when Arizona was admitted to the Union, the Legislature picked him as the State's first U. S. Senator. A thoroughgoing Democrat, he has served in the Senate ever since...
Instead of Quincy, the Fire Department could use Prescott Street, which is by rights a public thoroughfare. If it were deemed necessary, some of the land to the rear of Fogg could be donated the city, to facilitate the engines' turning into Prescott. If the University is ever to act on the question of Quincy Street, now is the time, when the problem is up before the City Council. To delay would be to lose a golden opportunity in the integration of University life, and the beautification of University property...