Word: spendings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Lowell, it is true, in his discussion of the House Plan, mentions the fact that it is intended to have undergraduates spend their last three years at Harvard in the new House Units. Is this to mean that the tradition of rooming in the Yard during one's Senior year is to be abandoned? If such is the case, it is a great pity. The Yard, with its ivy covered buildings, is the heart and soul of the University, and its atmosphere and traditions cannot be adequately replaced by any number of House Units, no matter...
Passenger. Col. Theodore Roosevelt's wife's aunt, Mrs. Hoffman, 70, once declared that she would never ride in an ocean steamer, much less an airplane. Col. Roosevelt is now Governor of Porto Rico. Last week aged Mrs. Hoffman flew to San Juan from Miami to spend the fashionable Antillean season...
...teammates and all the Harvard hosts were celebrating the 10-6 victory over Yale did not become known to players and coaches until yesterday morning. Arnold Horween, head coach of the Harvard team, was the only one permitted to see the star end yesterday, Dr. Richards permitting Horween to spend a few minutes with him before he left for Chicago...
...access to the Tower of London. His diamond sceptre recalls that London was a sovereign city before England had a Throne. In return for all this glory, to which he is elected for a term of only one year, the Most Worshipful the Lord Mayor is expected to spend three times his salary of $50,000 in banquets, pageants, shows. The new Lord Mayor, round and smiling Sir William Waterlow (not Waterloo), joint head of the potent printing firm of Waterlow & Sons, Ltd., spent at least $25,000 of his "pay" last week...
...other end of the scale swim the goldfish. There are all types and varieties: cheap, ten cent fish, which do little else than swim lazily about in bowls; and expensive, showy, magnificent, beautifully plumed aquatic residents, which spend their time exhibiting class and breeding. Yet all are subject to more or less the same treatment at one time or another, whether they serve as the unsuspecting targets for the gibes of a cruel audience, or are just forgotten for a week by their feeders...