Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Affairs announced last night the nomination by petition of three additional men for the Freshman class officers to be elected tomorrow. Rufus Horton Jones of Portland, Maine, has been nominated for vice-president, and the names of Daniel Bond Linscott of Woburn and of Robert Etheridge Gregg Jr. of West Newton have been added to the list of nominees for secretary-treasurer...
...earthquake which rocked Cambridge and the entire eastern part of the country about 9.30 Saturday night threw the stylus of the University seismograph in Peabody Hall off the east-west component of motion, according to Professor R. A. Daly G. '95, of the Department of Geology, but did not prevent taking a record of the shock...
...nature of the shock last night, Professor Daly replied that nothing definite has yet been determined. "The quake was extraordinary," he declared, "both for its strength and the wide area of disturbance. The center seems to have been about 100 miles distant from Boston either to the cast or west." Professor J. B. Woodworth, the University seismologist, is absent on sabbatical leave in Florida and hence cannot read the record of the seismograph. The cylinder has therefore been shellacked, and will be sent to Washington for study...
...University fencing team will take the floor against the Army foils and epee men at West Point today. At the same time, the Freshmen, in their first meet, will face the English High School team in Hemenway Gymnasium. Although both the Freshmen and their opponents are inexperienced, it is expected that the Freshmen will be able...
...meet with West Point will be the third of the season for the University team for whom the record shows two decisive victories, over Howdoin and Syracuse. The West Point team has also two victories to its credit having defeated Columbia and Cornell. The Crimson team has been built up around Captain Durham '25 and Lendon Snedeker '25, both veterans from last year's team. West Point's mainstays are Captain Lynch, foils and Haskell, epee...