Word: programs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past. Douglas Fairbanks offered $200 for a sprint; Mary Pickford's starry gaze followed a little wearily the incessant circlers. A bronzed well-dressed little man kept jumping up and down in his seat. It was Theodore Roosevelt, back from hunting the Ovis poll. He studied his program and laughed at some of the names. Were Grimm and Winter freezing the others out? What about the good team of Egg and Eaton? Yes, they were badly scrambled, he was told. He smirked briefly and recomposed his face. His father, he reminded himself hastily, would never have laughed...
...unusual festivities will mark the passing of another year in the long life of President Eliot. He will receive members of his family and a few intimate friends during the day, but there will be no change in his ordinary day's program...
Harvard, in common with many other American colleges and universities, is in the midst of a large building program. For actual volume added, its present physical growth has been approximated only twice before in the history of the University. During the period from 1924 to the close of 1926, a group of buildings--substantially 13 per cent, of its total number--will have been erected...
...Boston has, apparently, lost whatever whimsy it once possessed. People here are like the lady who whispered to the friend with the rattling program, "Now they are all dead, and we know they are all dead, we can laugh at the funny places." And the funny places are the crude places. Only the occasional eye notices the delicate nuances of character, wishes to notice them. Yet it is for such that Sutton Vane wrote his play--and it is for such that the Copley players are producing it. So one must credit them with a task, verging on the impossible...
...real job in producing a successful football team next year doesn't lie with me, or the other coaches who will be appointed later, but with you men who are going to make up the team," was Horween's opening remark on next season's program. "I'll be here to tell you everything I know and to give you all the help I can, but it is you who are going to actually play the games, and it is with you that the ultimate success of the season must rest. I am proud to come to Harvard to coach...