Word: springing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Holbrook admitted that there had been considerable discussion recently whether the present Junior Class should continue the custom of giving a large dance in Memorial Hall during the spring. At a meeting yesterday afternoon at which G. L. Lewis, Jr. '30, vice-president of the class, J. W. Potter '30, class secretary, and A. R. Sweezy '29, chairman of last year's Junior Dance Committee, were present, it was decided that the balance of argument against the dance and in favor of it could be adjusted best by a direct appeal to the members of the class concerned...
There was more perturbation in the Manhattan offices of the Guaranty Trust Co. last spring when two $50,000 kegs of gold fell into the Hudson River than there was exaltation last week when Chairman Sabin and President Potter announced that the bank's resources were $1,052,211,198. The keg accident was unusual...
...served by them. To our friends the constructive critics, one would like to say that they must exercise patience. Three years at Oxford cannot turn even an able and gifted man into a world-conqueror. It can make even a dull and prejudiced man realize that national animosities spring from misunderstanding and unwillingness to entertain a more humane view of international relations. An Oxford education turns out thoughtful men able to help, not doctrinaires with a bagful of remedies for the world...
Plans are now being drawn for the new War Memorial Chapel, although some $200,000 is still needed to reach the goal of $1,000,000. Work will be started some time this spring it is expected...
...King and Queen of England, on the recommendation of the Prince of Wales, invited her to perform at Windsor Castle two years ago. Last spring, Miss Draper was presented at the Court of St. James's, an honor no British actress has ever received, and an episode which added one more brief, unpredictable mis-en-scene to the abrupt series in which Ruth Draper's life, and all other lives, is told...