Word: rhodes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prime U. S. button-presser is President Hoover. But last week the President could not oblige. In his stead Vice President Curtis did some button-pressing to flash a signal from Washington to Rhode Island. There a cannon boomed salutes. An airplane dropped noisemakers. U. S. Cruiser Dallas tooted its whistle. Two little girls cut ribbons while silk-hatted notables stood by. These ceremonious alarums celebrated the opening of the new Mt. Hope suspension bridge, world's seventh largest, connecting the two sea-severed fragments of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Best ceremony: initiation of Rhode Island...
...golden mace, not so old a custom, the mace having been acquired two years ago. Dr. Barbour and Chancellor Arnold Buffum Chace came next. Close behind was Dr. Abbott Lawrence Lowell, for without a Harvard President present, no Brown President has ever taken office. Under the U. S. and Rhode Island flags, further back in the line, strode Governor Norman Stanley Case (Brown 1908) surrounded by his staff. Followed many a statesman, jurist and nearly three-score college presidents. There were Cornell's Farrand, Yale's Angell, Union's Day, Rhode Island's Alger ; also Charles...
Sibley Crosslett Smith '31, of Providence, Rhode Island, has been elected captain of the University fencing team, it was announced yesterday. Smith, who was one of the outstanding foilsmen on last years team, fills the position made vacant by the graduation of D. I. Modell '30, who completed his college course ahead of schedule...
...other scores as follows: New Hampshire 13 B. U. 0 Army 26 Gettysberg 0 Dartmouth 54 Hobart 0 Florida 18 V. M. I. 0 Michigan 18 Michigan State 3 Holy Cross 33 Providence 0 Yale 40 Vermont 0 Boston College 23 Maine 6 Princeton 19 Amherst 3 Brown 20 Rhode Island 0 Stanford 19 Oregon 6 N. Y. U. 26 W. Va. Wesleyan 6 Navy 23 Wm. & Mary 0 Penn 27 Swarthmore 6 Tufts 13 Colby 3 Cornell 67 Niagara 0 Williams 13 Middlebury...
...Charles Joseph Bonaparte Scholarship, one of the most sought after awards among the 500 which the College annually makes to undergraduates, has been given for the year of 1929-30 to Frederick Mundell Watkins '30 of Providence, Rhode Island. The award last year was won by Thomas Arnold McGovern '29 of Schenectady, New York, who also was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship-at-large during his Senior year...