Word: towns
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...familiar type in our midst is the case-hardened gambler, the grimly smiling sport-lover who courts Dame Fortune all he can, the man who confesses with a devilish expression that he "likes to take a sporting chance". He need no longer go in town for the tense mental exhilaration of matching nickels to see who shall pay the fares, for within the six or seven walls of the maligned Hemenway Gymnasium is a bowling alley, where he will find both physical exertion and the most delightfully fickle uncertainty. The alley resembles a relief map of the state of Nevada...
...University Musical Clubs will give a concert in Pequossette Hall, Water-town, this evening at 8.15 o'clock. Tickets at 35 cents each may be obtained from R. Bowser '13, Brentford 36. The program will be the same as that given on the western trip...
...Williams '76, formerly Headmaster of Hackley School, and Mrs. Williams will give a reception at their home in Boston this evening in honor of Professor Palmer on attaining his seventieth year. A number of out of town friends of Professor Palmer will attend. Mr. Williams and Rev. Frederic Palmer '69 of Andover, Professor Palmer's brother, will read original poems in honor of the occasion. Mr. Williams is one of Professor Palmer's earliest pupils at Harvard
...first number will be an illustrated paper on "Architectural Acoustics" by Professor W. C. Sabine, with a practical discussion of a number of recent theatres, lecture halls, and churches. The number will also contain several drawings of important examples of European architecture and an essay on "The Mediaeval Town Halls of Italy" by H. E. Warren, S.M. in Architecture...
...lectures on the Progressive Movement, in Emerson D, on Friday, at 8.15 o'clock. The special topic of his lecture will be "Concerning Certain Demagogues." Mr. White, besides being a prominent editor, has written a number of popular books, chief among which are "A Certain Rich Man," "In Our Town," and "The Real Issue." This lecture is given under the auspices of a committee of the Faculty and is open to all members of the University...