Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Church. Second-in-command under Chairman Callahan on the new committee will be Dr. Arthur James Barton, chief of the Southern Baptist Social Service Commission; third-in-command, Edwin Courtland Dinwiddie of the Anti-Saloon League; fourth, Mrs. Lenna Lowe Yost of the W. C. T. U.'s West Virginia chapter...
Often when the West comes to the East (even when the West comes bearing gifts) the visit is made with the assumption that all things occidental are superior, that all things oriental are deplorable. No such error was made in Yenching University's architecture. Here buildings were so designed by able Manhattanite Henry Killam Murphy as to harmonize with the country and the civilization of which they are a part. There are Forbes, Wheeler, Gamble, and Finley Dormitories, but despite their Anglo-Saxon names these buildings have the blue-tiled pagoda roofs, white walls, red lacquer columns, carved porches...
...case of the Harvard-West Point game the opportunities for informal contact between any large numbers of the visitors and those who are nominally their hosts are strictly limited both by military rule and the shortness of the Army's stay. Virtually the only means of contact between the men of the two institutions is that afforded by the welcoming committee. Those in charge of this years group have wisely planned for an unusually large committee, a provision which should make for much greater informality and flexibility than the old plan of assigning...
...March 1--West Point at West Point. Harvard Club at New York...
Bowdoin and Boston University, who did not test the team greatly last year, have been dropped from this year's schedule, to be replaced by the strong West Point swordsmen...