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...President Lowell thinks he wasn't recognized. That may be so. Still, they couldn't have thought he was Butch Mc-Guiness, the hammer thrower. At least the students knew that here was an old gentleman of academic demeanor who would have nothing worthwhile to contribute if the talk veered around to the relative merits of Camera and Jack Shar- key. If A. Lawrence Lowell wants to know what students talk about he'd better send a dictaphone next time and stay away.. . . He might even hear something about A. Lawrence Lowell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Homer at Harvard | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

...Weehawken manholes, causing residents to scurry to their cellars. Firemen were summoned to put out a blaze on an Erie R. R. freight loading platform, started by the burning grass. A chicken crate factory started burning down; two firefighters were overcome. A paper factory also caught fire. Match-thrower Moyer was expected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Aug. 18, 1930 | 8/18/1930 | See Source »

Coach Farrell has decided to concentrate on a small number of events this year and is entering only nine men in all in the Philadelphia competition. The other five Harvard representatives, including Vonckx, stellar hammer-thrower, and the crack Crimson one mile relay quartet, comprised of Cummings, Hennessy, Munroe, and Record, will entrain Friday afternoon at 1.05 o'clock, in order to arrive in time for their events...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADVANCE GUARD LEAVES FOR PENN RELAYS TODAY | 4/24/1930 | See Source »

...since he took three first places in the winter meet with Andover, N. P. Dodge '33, who won the 440 two consecutive years in the Harvard Inter-scholastics is expected to snatch a first in this race tomorrow. In the hammer throw Alfred Kidder 2nd '33, star weight thrower for Andover last year, is expected to garner a first place

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN TRACK TEAM IN FIRST OUTDOOR MEET | 4/18/1930 | See Source »

Even the most cursory readers of the daily press must be now familiar with the fact that the Senate is investigating the activities of a man whose chief claim to fame is that of most famous thrower of monkey wrenches in the machinery of progress. On his own representation, he blocked the famous Geneva conference for a trifling monetary consideration. That he bent every effort toward doing so, there is no doubt. That he was paid to do just that thing, the corporations which gave him the money are endeavoring to disprove. The situation is disagreeable to every one except...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MONEY TALKS | 9/26/1929 | See Source »

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