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Team B, which finished second last season after clinging stubbornly to the leading Harvard Club group, will meet Newton Center with a lineup consisting of E. D. Pratt '27, W. J. Iselin '29, A. G. Thatcher '29, and J. C. Rueter...
...found in Webster's New International Dictionary. "Stramash," meaning "disturbance, ruction, broil," was applied to chronic political contentions in France. "Jimp," which has five meanings, among them (adjectively) "neat, spruce, trim," was applied to the leg of the original of Mark Twain's "Becky Thatcher." "Musnud" is the pillow or cushioned seat sat upon by an oriental potentate; was employed by TIME,-somewhat pedantically- to a university or seat-of-learning. "Kudos," of Greek derivation, means "praise, glory," was used in reference to honorary college degrees.-ED. Hibbard Flayed...
...week the case came up in court. Counsel for the Cohens argued that the plaintiff is really a baroness, wife of Leopold Frederick Salvatore Baron Popper de Podhragy, that thus she is no longer Jeritza, has no more right to the name than have the Cohens. But Federal Judge Thatcher thought differently, decided in favor of "La Jeritza", ordered the Cohens to cease using her name...
...writing, and got famous under the name of Mark Twain. The college man was unveiling a monument to Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn done in bronze by Frederick Hubbard. He told how Tom Sawyer (who was really Clemens himself) had loved in the book a girl named Becky Thatcher, whose crinkling, twinkling jampot eyes had won him, whose enchanting ways had sung a song in his heart until he died. She was the flower of Missouri, said the college scholar; no girl had freckles golden as hers, no girl so jimp a leg. Once she had spent the night with...
...list for honors: Boston Country Day, Browne and Nichols, Chestnut Hill School of Philadelphia, Columbia High School of East Orange, Groton, Hartford High School, The Hill, Hotchkiss, Kent, Milton Academy, Riverdale Country School of New York, Roxbury Latin School, St. Marks, St. Pauls of Concord, N. H. Thatcher School of California, and Williston...