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This afternoon the Alumni of the University will hold sway in the Yard, when the Alumni exercises begin at 12 o'clock with a general Alumni luncheon in front of Matthews. The class of 1925, newly-made alumni, will join in the general spread. These exercises and those of Phi Beta Kappa Day, tomorrow, complete the list of events of the week in Cambridge...
...regret was caused by the fact that his father and mother were at that moment being sold at auction in a meadow three miles away. No one was so heartless as to describe that scene to him: the 3,000-odd onlookers, bidders, the group of old stallions, sway-backed mares, shaggy, spindling colts-remnants of the famed stable of the late August Belmont, being sold by a red-faced auctioneer. No one told him of the prices: how his father, Fair Play, went to Joseph E. Widener for $100,000; his mother, Mahubah, brought a miserable...
...foot-bridge which will lead from the lower reaches of De Wolf Street to the ash-dumps in hither Stadiumland, will not be, as popular belief would have it, a light and swaying bamboo structure spanning the Charles. It will not sag and sway beneath the feet of business school men with their green bags, plodding wearily home from classes. All the illusion of a full moon, rising behind the Brighton Abattoir or whenever it does rise to shine on this new rainbow arch, will be shattered by cold brick and cement. It will be made, alas, to walk...
Governor General the Earl of Athlone, royal uncle of the Prince, represents His Majesty the King, aloof from local wrangles, immaculate symbol of British sway. He presides at the capital city of Pretoria* and is expected at Cape Town for the Prince's arrival...
...time when the State is beneficently inclined toward the Church the Cardinal's attack on the Fascisti seemed unfortunate. It, however, showed that there is at least one Prince of the Church who is unalterably opposed to the temporal sway of the Italian Government in the former Papal States. Great importance is lent to the attack by the sole fact that that particular Prince is one of the greatest powers in the Roman Catholic hierarchy...