Word: springing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Freshman inter-dormitory chess competition will be held in the winter and spring for the Kenna trophy, which was donated by R. K. Kenna '17; and exhibitions will be given during the year by prominent players of Boston and vicinity...
Finally, the Council passed on the awarding of numerals to the class of 1928 baseball team which played against the Yale champion baseball team last spring...
Read about Roger Wolfe Kahn, amused, pleased [TIME, Sept. 19]. Kahn's Perroqueet [Manhattan night club] stopped flapping last Spring, a flop. His band has usually been a flop, lacking personality. He gets jobs at small figures, boosting the payroll out of his pocket. He hires big stars who get extraordinary salaries and really play but the public doesn't pay to hear music, rather to see personality. Kahn plays many instruments, but how? His arrangers and players make the music good. Will you ask a few musicians if this is not so-your New York office...
...actor members it stays open late at night. In these days Don Marquis may be often seen there; Jules Guerin, the painter; Otis Skinner; John Barrymore when he is in town; O. P. Heggie; and many another. Ladies are admitted to reception on Shakespeare's Birthday; also the spring evening when the annual Players all-star revival gives its last performance. Then, in the garden, supper is served and the cast and its invited actresses sit down in costumes of She Stoops to Conquer, The Rivals or perhaps Henry VI. There is no significance in this gathering...
Over one-half of the Freshman class has anticipated English. A according to figures given out yesterday by the English Department. This large increase in those anticipating the course is due to the innovation, announced last spring by Professor Bliss Perry, in charge of the course at that time, which allowed those men who received grades of 70 per cent or higher in their College Board English examinations exemption from English...