Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Farrell also emphasized the importance of the inexperienced material in the development of the team. He said, "We have developed innumerable stars at Harvard out of men who never even saw a pair of spiked shoes before." Captain H. T. Dunker '25 also spoke a few words, stressing the point that this was "a year of big opportunity," and that "Harvard athletics had slipped a little during the past year or two." Coach R. W. Harwood '20 made a special appeal for more candidates in the pole-vault, an event in which the University was woefully weak last year...
Bakst liked the costumes of the American Indians. Striking color values he saw in them, grand material for a U.S. ballet. He confided his ambition to design such a ballet to Morris Gest, producer; also discussed plans by which he was to design scenery and costumes for a new play by D'Annunzio, Italian poet, starring Ida Rubenstein, famed dancer, staged by Max Reinhardt, produced by Gest. "Those five names are five aces," said Mr. Bakst, "better than any poker hand." Bakst's most renowned sets were those he designed for the Chauve Souris, Boris Godunov...
...five months journeying through the U. S. He stopped at colleges and universities?colleges for men, for women, for men and women, for groes,' for Indians, for divines, for business men, for lawyers?30 institutions in all. At first he was staggered by the diversity of the sights he saw. Then, gradually, he formulated comprehensive ideas about U. S. education. When he returned, lately, to England, he said to his countrymen...
...year 1924 saw more new railway mileage under construction than any year since the War; the Interstate Commerce Commission authorized construction of 1,318 miles of new lines, while it permitted only 453 miles of old lines to be abandoned. Shippers are practically all of the opinion that 1924 rail service was the most speedy and efficient ever afforded. Capital expenditures of railroads for rehabilitation of cars and locomotives was $563,000,000 this year, against...
...cafeteria, which was disliked by the President, be closed. It was thought by the authorities that the cafeteria drew trade away from Memorial Hall. That able and wise manager succeeded in running the cafeteria and Memorial, but he tired of having to fight to keep the cafeteria. He saw changes coming. He knew that the cafeteria was doomed. For more than two decades he had run the dinning halls successfully and well. He knew that the men who were eating in the cafeteria would not fleck to Memorial when the cafeteria was closed. Before the crash came he resigned...