Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...farewell dinner last night given in honor of two departing officers of that unit, Majors Robert Charles Frederic Goetz and Edwin Pearson Parker. In the after-dinner program, P. S. Sprague '24, captain of the University polo team, presented Major Goetz with a solid silver cigarette case, while Thaddeus Adamowski, representing the unit, presented Major Parker with an automatic service revolver appropriately engraved...
...Committee on the Silver Bay Student Conference has announced the reduction of the expenses for delegates wishing to attend the Conference to a little more than $40. This figure includes the railroad fare both ways, board, and the program fee. The University's quota for the Conference, June 14-22, has almost been reached, but there is still an opportunity for a limited number of men to apply at the Phillips Brooks House...
...that the vogue of any of the above-named gentry has entirely gone by. Tattered Tom, the bootblack, is still able to thrill adolescent readers as he helps the white-haired old gentleman across the street to receive in recompense a bright silver dollar and a great deal of moral advice. The athletic English striplings of Henty's confection continue to slay their thousands in every known historical period. But the last few years have only brought forth one writer with a true genius for the " children's story," Hugh Lofting, and he belongs rather with Lewis Carroll...
This afternoon at 1.45 o'clock, the Reverend H. H. Tweedy will speak in the Randolph Breakfast Room on "The Y. M. C. A. Conference at Silver Bay". This is a convention composed of students who meet at Silver Bay every year to discuss student problems from the point of view of religion. Dr. Tweedy will explain the profit that comes to anyone attending the Conference, and will also elaborate on the attractions and opportunities for recreation at Silver Bay. The meeting is open to all members of the University who are interested in the Y. M. C. A. work...
...regular 15 events will be run off today, and in each of them handicaps will be awarded to contestants according to their experience and ability. The track management has made special efforts by this arrangement of handicaps to give all the competitors an equal opportunity to win the gold, silver, and bronze medals which the H. A. A. will award to the winners of the first three places in each event...