Word: thousande
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...special attention to good fellowship and all the jolly things one sees-By wireless to The New Yorker Times Company and by wireless right back to the correspondent collect. Copyright by The New Yorker Times Company, as if anybody cared.-On board the Naphtha Launch City of Over Ten Thousand, in sight of Staten Island, Jan. 10. (Via Ferryboat Irma. Same date) . . . I wish I could tell you something of the spirit that prevails on board. No sacrifice is too great for the boys to make, and they do it with a grin a mile long on their faces...
...Cooler", in the latest Saturday Evening Post, Mr. Kenneth L. Roberts bites the hand that fed him, apologetically but severely. His caricature of the Harvard he saw and the Harvard men who tried to interpret Harvard for him is a diabolically clever masterpiece. He takes a couple of thousand words to prove that Harvard men are egocentric asses trying to appear indifferent when they are not, starving in Harvard Square hashhouses, and lying prostrate in idolatrous worship of the Great God Final Club. He takes a concluding paragraph to show that Harvard men are studious and passable. The result...
...hundred thousand dollars was bequeathed to Harvard University by Ogden Mills '78, whose will was filed for probate last Tuesday in Duchess County, New York. The gift was among a number of bequests to charitable and educational institutions which totalled $2,250,000. Half of the gift to Harvard is to be added to the Endowment Fund, while $100,000 is given in a codicil without designating a specific purpose...
...exhibition in the Widener Memorial Room. All of the books have been picked from the Harry Elkins Widener collection, the duplicates of the more expensive books in the Kerne sale being selected. Hardly a volume duplicated in the present Widener exhibit sold for less than a thousand dollars in the recent New York sale...
President Little thought that all students should be housed on the campus. Several thousand boarded at homes in Ann Arbor. Landladies, foreseeing a loss of income, threatened suit, charged profligacy, wrote irate letters to the Board of Regents. Next year, as Dr. Little planned, a huge women's dormitory will rise on the Michigan campus...