Word: princeton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Today Kent School consists of a dozen neat colonial buildings, 250 students, a waiting list which many a 50-year-old school may well envy, and a branch school of 70 boys at South Kent, Conn. Graduates of Kent have distinguished themselves at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Williams, Amherst. For several years, they won the annual scholarship cup at Harvard. In the present Yale senior class, the outstanding athlete and the chairman of the University newspaper are Kent graduates...
...Myopia was the third of a series of practice games following a month's training at Dedham and preliminary to the intercollegiate title play at the Westchester-Biltmore Club at Rye, New York, next week. In the tournament the Crimson mallet men will face West Point, Pennsylvania Military College, Princeton and Yale respectively on June 16, 18, 20, and 25. Each team will meet the other entrants once, and the outfit with the highest average takes the title...
...Harlow Shapley, head of the Harvard Observatory, was awarded the honorary degree of doctor of laws by Missouri University here today. Dr. Shapley received his A.B. degree at Missouri in 1910 and in the following year was also awarded an A.M. In 1914 he received his PhD. at Princeton, and in the same year took up an astronomer's post at Mt. Wilson Observatory in California...
...subsequent comment on the impending struggle between the new and the old representatives of the wit that emanates from colleges says: "A third competitor has now entered the field in the form of the Princeton 'Tiger': and although no judgement can fairly be made from a single number, and that a first issue, it seems likely that the 'Tiger' may prove itself some time a rival by no means to be despised. Naturally we doubt if the 'Lampoon' is in any imminent danger of being surpassed by either the 'Spectator' or the 'Tiger', but a healthy and friendly emulation...
...course of the year it has held four large dances: one following the Princeton game, another at Christmas time, a Valentine dance and the Spring dance. Following the seven football games played in Cambridge tea dances were given...