Word: seals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...management announces that, as in the College tournament, the winner will receive a silver cigarette box instead of a cup, as originally announced. As the yearly tournaments are conducted under the auspices of the H. A. A., boxes will bear the seal of the Athletic Association. As is customary, a medal will be awarded to the runner...
Fitz-Greene Halleck speaks somewhere of "Seals that close the pestilence". Although he uses the phrase in quite another sense, these words may fittingly be applied to the Christmas Seals now on sale in practically every public place throughout the country. We may not think when we plank down our dime or quarter that the sale of these stamps does a really great work. As every member of Freshman Hygiene is told, one out, of ten deaths--and that is a pretty large ratio, considering the long list of fatal maladies--is due to tuberculosis. Moreover, the disease can usually...
Last year the National Tuberculosis Association secured four million dollars from the seals--a considerable amount--but consider this: during the holiday season, approximately a billion letters pass through the mails. If each of these letters bore a seal, the Association would secure two and a half times as much as it did last year. We suggest, therefore, "a seal for every letter...
Search in the past for a source for the motto used on the Harvard seal has been without avail. But according to a paper recently read before the Colonial Society in Boston there are two incidents which might have inspired Harvard men to adopt the phrase "Christo et Ecclesiae." The first possible influence came from a Dutch academy, the University of Franeker established in 1585. Here, during the first half century of its existence, the words "Christo et Ecclesia" were used at its dedication, in its first law of government, as its coat-of-arms, in an indictment...
...playlet was surrounded by many other good acts. Ray Hulling led off with his "clown seal", a wonderfully trained animal. Jack Joyce did several clever one-legged dances, in which his incapacity did not seem to bother him in the least. Lou and Jean Archer sang, danced, and exhibited several beautiful costumes. Mae and Nore Wilton also sing duets; these two possess excellent and well-harmonized voices. Joe Morris and Flo Campbell in their skit. "The Avi-Ate-Her" kept the house in a continuous uproar. Vernon Stiles. "Our Own American can Tenor," sang a number of classical pieces...