Word: two
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Arthur Mencken "25 disclosed recently that he is planning a solo air journey through Africa starting this fall and spending about a year on the flight. Mencken, who was a member of the University Rifle Team for two years and a Lampoon editor, is now a student in the Fordham Law School and is planning to take his bar examination this fall before his journey...
...announcement in yesterday's CRIMSON that two golf greens will be constructed on the class football fields near Longfellow track will be warmly welcomed by University golfing enthusiasts. This move, which marks the materializing of the Athletic Committee's recommendation of last December, presents several favorable aspects. Not only is this much desired recognition of golf in accordance with the athletics for all policy inaugurated by Athletic Director William J. Bingham, but it is a partial fulfillment and facilitation of an off-expressed hope that provision for all Harvard athletics, especially golf, may be made in proximity to the college...
Golfing enthusiasts have long bemoaned the comparative neglect of their favorite sport in comparison to tennis, squash, and similar activities. The erection of two greens on which to practice approach shots will eliminate the necessity of traveling miles to the nearest golf course. A far more important step in the recognition of golf, however, is the securing of Francis Ouimet's services this spring to lay out the greens and to coach the University golf squad. The able services of such a recognized golfing figure will do much to increase the prestige of the sport at Harvard...
Approximately 100 original drawings by Walter Crane which were used for the illustrations in two of his books have recently been given to the Treasure Room of Widener Library by A. H. Parker '97. These drawings are supplementary to a group of books and pictures by Crane and by Caldecott that Mr. Parker gave to the University last fall...
...characters an hour, which seems slow in comparison with the speed of an American machine. This is, however, twice the speed with which one can print Chinese by hand. Furthermore, it is a greater speed than one thinks, because most Chinese words consist of only one or two characters, whereas English words consist of many more. Mr. Chiu in illustrating this fact said that 'Harvard' is represented in Chinese by two characters. The word is formed by transliteration, and curiously enough the translation of the characters is "laughing Buddha...