Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Forty-one new Band members including 30 Freshmen will receive silver band charms indicative of full membership as the Harvard University Band Club stages its annual banquet at the Harvard Union this evening...
...wives of faculty members in the Department of the Classics at Harvard University will conduct a sale of Greek art embroideries and silver work next Friday and Saturday, December 4 and 5, for the benefit of the Near East Industries at 197 Brattle Street...
...cost his employers, American Mining & Smelting Co., $30,000. The Inca treasure turned up while he was hunting for coal on the Andean plateau east of Port of Salaverry, Peru. He saw some natives wading in a lake during a snowstorm, investigated, found they were taking out gold and silver ornaments. He jumped in with them and got 75 pieces, which he gave to the American Museum of Natural History...
...years ago some of the best hotels in New York, Atlantic City, and Boston were beseiged with complaints from individuals who became ill after a meal in these hotels. Intensive search failed to reveal the cause. Finally it was discovered that a silver polish used in these hotels contained potassium cyanide. A minute residue of this polish on a fork or from a tea-pot spout was quite sufficient to produce severe gastro-intestinal symptoms...
...most engrossing charac- ters in the history of the college was Tutor Henry Flynt, who "tuted" for 56 years straight. It was the custom 200 years ago for the students to present their tutor with silverware, but Flynt amassed so much silver that his last graduating class could not decide on a gift. They finally presented him with a large silver chamber-pot, which the students carried across the Yard on a Crimson cushion