Word: slocum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the papers which are expected to be of special interest is one by J. E. Willis on the crossed-vertical transit which is a new instrument of fundamental astronomy. Frederick Slocum is to give a preliminary report on the probability of clear sky for the 1932 total eclipse...
Richard Washburn Child '03, recent ambassador to Italy and a former president of the Advocate board, and Thomas Williams Slocum '90, presidents of the Harvard Club of New York City, were the principal speakers, together with Julian Street, noted author, and B.A. De Voto '18. Nickerson acted as toastmaster...
...Slocum, the first speaker, spoke on how the proposed Advocate building would fit into the House Plan of the University. Child discussed the importance of a literary organization as a center of intellectual activity in the life of the University, and how this would inevitably redound to the benefit of the University at large...
...rumors of change in the Harvard coaching staff which have been current since the close of the football season were laid low in the first speech of the evening. T. W. Slocum '90, president of the Harvard Club of New York city, toastmaster at the dinner, called on Mr. Bingham as the first speaker...
Died. Patrick J. ("Paddy") Lynch, 75, famed fireman, hero of the General Slocum disaster; after several years' illness; in Manhattan. In 1904 the General Slocum, filled with Sunday School picnickers, caught fire in Manhattan's East River. The lives of 1,031 were lost. Fireman Lynch rowed zealously back and forth between the blazing steamer and the shore, saved 41 persons...