Word: springing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yesterday Tilden outlined the following points which had prompted his suggestion. "If the American team goes abroad we have a reasonable chance for success. We could play in Europe during the entire spring and summer. Then our younger players, the team's bulwark in years to come, need practice under alien conditions. They had a great chance to obtain this, but it has been thrown away. Thirdly, there would have been adequate time to become accustomed to the differences in climate, food, light, and playing facilities. It would also have allowed the Americans who play on the Davis Cup team...
...career has been captain of the Freshman hockey team, a regular on the squad this year, and first string end on the football team a year ago. As a crew-man he has been in the first Freshman boat, a year later in the Second University crew, and last spring he rowed against Yale in the first University shell. He was president of his class in its Sophomore year and now is president of the Philips Brooks House and the Student Council...
...Last spring a book was given to the Library inscribed "C. C. Felton From his affectionate Friend Charles Dickens. New Years Day 1844." The Library possesses in the Sumner collection a letter, which is now also on exhibit, written to Charles Summer in March, 1842, in which Dickens says, "I miss Felton sadly. Half the pleasure of my world, as Charles Lamb says, has gone with him. I would give, I hardly know what I would not give, to have him at No 1 Devonshire Terrace, York gate, Regents Park, London; for I have a sincere affection...
Harvard is often held a hotbed of conservatism. Out of this hotbed springs next month a rarity; a wholesale educational experiment. When Harvard men come back from Christmas holidays classes will not be called.* Last spring the governing boards approved a vote of the faculty of Arts & Sciences. Educational machinery ground out of this vote a plan. Instead of attending lectures the two and one half week period before mid-year examinations, the students will read books. These books selected by appropriate professors, will be supplied the library in quantities; will have direct bearing on the studies of the earlier...
...Chicago Stock Exchange seat was sold last week for $16,500, the local record. The exchange will move into its new rooms in the State Bank of Chicago building next spring...