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...students are chosen by their scholastic records in school and through personal interviews with members of district Harvard Clubs and Deans of the College. Last year the number of states from which students were chosen was increased to seventeen with the addition of Kansas and Nebraska...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NATIONAL AWARDS FOR SCHOLARSHIP TO BE ANNOUNCED | 1/19/1940 | See Source »

Tamworth Region, N. H.: good snow of seventeen inches. Two new inches of snow over a breakable crust...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ski Column | 1/19/1940 | See Source »

Pennsylvania's basketball schedule begins early this year, on December 30. When the Red and Blue will meet California in the second of two double-headers listed for the Palestra. It has seventeen games altogether and its league season will begin on January 6. with Cornell in the Palestra...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red and Blue Is Ready For Tough Season | 12/13/1939 | See Source »

...slip, was soon turning out waltzes to beat the band. At the peak of his career he visited the U. S., conducted one gigantic concert with a chorus of 20,000 and 100 assistant conductors, was so frightened by the experience that he scurried back to Vienna for good. Seventeen years later, in 1889, a new popular musical movement had begun to sweep Johann and his waltzes into history. It came from the U. S. and it was in 4/4, not ¾, time. The Waltz Kings were succeeded by a March King: John Philip Sousa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Waltz Kings | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...line of march ran seventeen hundred miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Your Obt. Servt. | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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