Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Board of Overseers of Harvard College from 1909 to 1915, and from 1916 to 1922. His election as president of the Alumni Association took place this week at the annual October meeting of its directors, who selected, as the two vice-presidents J. M. Morton, '91, of Fall River, United States District Judge in Massachusetts, and A. A. Sprague, '97, of Chicago, onetime chairman of the board of Sprague, Warner & Company, and now a director of that company...
...clock the cadets will again form, this time in front of Widener Memorial library, and march through the class of 1877 gate to Soldiers Field by way of Massachusetts Avenue, Bow Street, DeWolfe Street, John W. Weeks Memorial Bridge and the Charles River Road to gate...
...frankly undertook to attract more promising material from the South and West. Admission had always been by special examinations, which were very difficult for graduates of even the best Western schools; but in 1925 Harvard rules to accept, without examination, from states South of the Ohio river and west of the Mississippi, boys who rank in the top one-seventh of the graduating class of a regularly organized and affiliated high school. This new ruling and this open-handed welcome to the boys of the South and West has resulted in greatly increased representation from these sections, and these...
...Shinto priests went to the mountains, selected a grove of hinoki trees, a variety of cedar. The following spring lumbermen in spotless white jackets, chosen for their piety and good character, felled the trees, floated them down the river to Yamada. For nine years every step of the construction from the seasoning of the lumber, the hewing of the beams to the final sweeping of the completed temple followed the fixed unvarying ritual. Every workman, from the humblest coolie to the supervising priest, had to bathe and pray daily, wear a spotless white jacket and shirt each morning...
...National Dairy Show at St. Louis. Oct. 21-President Hoover goes to Detroit for Henry Ford's dedication of the Edison Laboratories; Oct. 22-goes to Cincinnati for the celebration of the opening of the $100,000,000 improved Ohio River waterways; Oct. 23-inspects Louisville Dam. Oct. 25-New $6,000,000 Japanese motorship Asama Marti arrives in San Francisco on maiden voyage...