Word: swift
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Enrico, aged fifteen, left home and became a scugnizzo, a wandering singer of the streets, singing for a few soldi or for the pure joy of song. He was called "Arichetielli," and soon became known as the best boy singer in Naples. After that comes the story of his swift rise to fame, too familiar now to need repeating here...
...that sooner or later all the treaties will be ratified, for the administration has an adequate majority in the Senate. Futile hindrances and delays on the part of Senator Borah and his followers, however, will eliminate the tremendous prestige that would be given to the treaties if confirmed immediately. Swift ratification would have much the effect of a great approving public referendum on the work of the conference, and the influence of immediate ratification on other countries can hardly be over-estimated. On the other hand a long drawn-out discussion would have a tendency to destroy confidence...
...DPhilosophy 5 Emerson DPhysics 4a Harvard 2Romance Philol. 5 hf. Emerson JSlavic 1a Sever 18Spanish 2 Sever 302 P. M.English 7aBailey to Kleberg (inclusive) Emerson ALieberthal to Woodworth (inclusive) Emerson FEnglish 41Abbott to Howe (inclusive) New Lecture HallHuddleston to Murray (inclusive) Emerson DMyer to Rubin (inclusive) Emerson JRudofsky to Swift (inclusive) Harvard 5Taber to Zutt (inclusive) Harvard 6Engineering SchoolEngineering 51 (Same as Engineering Sciences 5)Engineering 221 (Same as Physics 4a)TomorrowBotany 10 Gray HerbCeltic 3 Emerson JChemistry 9 Emerson DEconomics 15 New Lact. HallFine Arts 18 Fogg Lect. rm.French 22 Emerson DGerman A:Prof. Bierwirth's sect. 14 Harvard...
...comes the news that "The United States Government, through accredited representatives, holds that the classic works of Rabelais are obscene, indecent and immoral and likely to corrupt the public"! Shades of Romanticism and Dean Swift! Rabelais is damned forever...
Altogether seven matches were played off yesterday, the results being as follows: A. L. Hobson Jr. '24 defeated B. A. Hunneman '22, 3-1; W. P. Dixon '25 defeated C. S. Van Rensselaer Jr. '24, 3-0; Howard Elliott Jr. '22 defeated J. G. Swift Jr. '22, 3-0; Darragh Louderback '24 defeated William Whitman 3d '22, 3-1; E. St. R. Reynal '24 defeated H. M. Gaston '24, 3-0; J. S. Lincoln '24 defeated J. B. Edmonds '23, 3-2; T. M. Carnegie Jr. '25 defeated Harrison Gardner '24, by default...