Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bilingual twist, the new governor's speech might not have been considered extraordinary. The Colonel recalled how his late, great father, only U. S. president to visit Porto Rico, had called the island "the Switzerland of America." He referred to his duties as ''our work," asked for "team-play, shoulder to shoulder...
...Hoover vexed the convention of the American Dental Association at Washington last week by only greeting a few of them (see p. 13).* Also they were cross because they did not get the newspaper publicity which conventioneers expect. Partly that was not their fault. Prime Minister MacDonald's visit to Washington and two sensational stranglings filled Washington papers and clogged national press services. But the dentists themselves were also to blame. Enterprising organizations do not wait for reporters to attend their meetings. Good publicity committees send information, well prepared, to the newspapers. The dentists did not have one convention...
With the memory of the Army's last visit to Cambridge still fresh the University turns this morning with keen anticipation to the second coming of the Corps within as many years. The meeting with the Academy a year ago marked the resumption of athletic relations on the football field after a lapse of thirty-three seasons. This renewing of a contact which in the past has been characterized by its cordial sportsmanship and which in the present gives so much satisfaction, stands forth in the undergraduate mind as probably one of the most agreeable results of the recently inaugurated...
However, that is the hard side of Plebe life. There are many diversions open to the Plebe. He can find time to read, to visit the library. There are always athletic event to see and there is a plebe team in every sport. He is not allowed to go to the Saturday evening hops, but there are always moving pictures on these nights. And over the week end, he can escort his visitors around the Post, and dine with them at the Hotel. There are many pleasant things to do during his spare time. And the Plebe has more time...
...that the Yard will presently have its autumn bronze and gold mixed with the gray of uniforms during the few minutes that mark the yearly visit of the West Pointers, he realizes what a tradition the Army game has acquired in the short time it has become again a feature of the Harvard football season. The Vagabond for one has come to look forward to it as one of the few colorful interludes in the college year, and once it has come and gone the noises and the smells that afflict a university around which a crowded city has grown...