Word: rowes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...widely held belief that rowing on a crew damages the health of the oarsman and that college crew men die regularly at the age of 45 or there-abouts will be considerably jolted by the news that the class of 1883 will put a crew on the river during its fiftieth reunion next week. Word was received yesterday from C. P. Perin '83, captain of that year's crew, that eight members of the class have agreed to row when the members of the class gather in Cambridge...
...spent his time fighting fights that were seldom finished, playing boy's sort of games, and remaining an "unscionable time in one class". This course of life did not lead to a scholarship; and at the age of seventeen, the had went to work for a bookseller in Paternoster Row at twenty pounds a year. In these days every shilling he had went into theatre tickets; and he dreamed of being a dramatic critic. But the following year his career was definitely set in another direction, for he got a job with W. T. Stead on "The Review of Reviews...
...Tokyo, became in 1908 an original faculty member of the Harvard Business School. His extemporaneous lectures on finance and banking were so good that at least one pupil reproduced them and sold them at a profit to outside businessmen. Abnormally nearsighted, Professor Sprague could not identify even his front-row students through his thick glasses. In April 1930, the Bank of England lured him from Harvard. When Britain went off gold, Expert Sprague helped run its Equalization Fund whereby the pound was kept at a 30% depreciation through foreign exchange purchases and sales...
...Columbus, Ohio last week met 1,500 U. S. Presbyterians in their annual General Assembly. Fundamentalists had come bringing threats, chief among them Dr. John Gresham Machen of Philadelphia who last month stirred up the row leading to the resignation of Author Pearl Sydenstricker Buck as a mission teacher in China (TIME, May 8). Since then Dr. Machen had flayed Mrs. Buck for an "antiChristian propagandist,'' excoriated the Presbyterian Foreign Missions board for its "Yes-&-No" attitude, called everybody names including even much-revered Board Secretary Robert Elliott Speer whom, by implication, he called "dishonest" and "evasive...
...partners stationed in Manhattan (five manage Drexel & Co. in Philadelphia) work together behind a long row of rolltop mahogany desks on the first floor of No. 23 Wall St., shut off by a glass partition from the banking floor and an area where clerks toil incessantly with calculating machines. By elevator they can go to the floor above where a long corridor decorated with large photographs of partners gives access to private offices where they can go to dictate to secretaries. (The Elder Morgan would tolerate no female stenographers but that day is long past.) Every morning the partners, including...