Word: sleepers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Music Building at 4.30 o'clock tomorrow which will be followed by a talk by Mr. Ballantine, instrumental selections by several students in the University, and an imformal reception. The climax of the week will come on Friday night when Professor Hill will give a Jazz Symposium in Jacob Sleeper Hall, Boston...
...University professors will deliver addresses in the series of fifteen lectures on. "The Newer Knowledge of the Physical Health of Children," beginning on February 5 at Jacob Sleeper Hall under the auspices of the Boston University School of Education. Professor William T. Porter and Assistant Professor Richard M. Smith of the Medical School have accepted invitations to speak...
...University Glee Club members, who will sing on its Christmas concert tour, will spend most of the coming vacation in a railroad sleeper, since the club's itinerary includes seven widely separated cities to be visited in ten days. St. Louis is the point farthest west on the trip, and Washington the point farthest south. At each stop the men will be entertained by the local Harvard Club...
Universities in America are run on business lines. The President speedily becomes the traveling salesman of a body of business Trustees or (in the case of a State university) an expert lobbyist. His bag never unpacked, he is ready to dash into his sleeper to catch the next conference or alumni banquet. He is never in his own library or among his own students...
...stop fight from Chicago to Mitchel Field, L. I. Flying steadily at 100 miles an hour, by moonlight to Cleveland, in total darkness thereafter, the plane completed the journey in eight and a half hours without the shadow of a mishap. This is a forerunner of the aerial sleeper. The 20th Century Limited serves the business man at present better than an airplane flying only by day, but to make a night trip to Chicago without losing an hour of the working day may be of real value...