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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little boy jumped with a para- chute made from a tablecloth, felt the parachute give way above him, felt the world come up beneath him, rolled over uninjured. He had landed on a pile of hay. The boy was James De Witt Hill. About 35 years later he jumped from Old Orchard, Me., in an airplane made of wood and wires and steel; felt the airplane give way around him; felt the world coming up beneath him; splashed down into the ocean, disappeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notes, Sep. 19, 1927 | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

...Banjo and Glee Clubs and the Orchestra have arranged a program of eleven numbers, to which will be added specialty acts by E. C. Bitcliffe '30, De Witt Statten '30, E. D. Hanighen '30, and G. W. Eiseman '30. After the concert the Harvardians will play for dancing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Musicians Play | 5/18/1927 | See Source »

...quiet chuckles. "Milt Gross stood talking with Ring Lardner and another on the steps of the American Indian Museum. He had under his arm a bulbous bundle and this dropped incontinently to the granite pedestal as he shrugged his shoulders. 'A peckage skelps,' he said. 'Heendian skelps witt blad.' Lardner raised a thermal eyebrow. 'What of it?' he asked, and in Chicago two young Jewish psychopathics drew up to the curb in a Dodge, looking for someone to give a ride to. That night the Alabama delegation in the steaming reaches of Madison Square Garden threw twenty-five dogged votes...

Author: By J. H. S. ., | Title: THE EARLY WORM. By Robert Benchley '12. Henry Holt & Co., New York, 1927. $2.00. | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

This unusual phenomon was later explained by the Yard cops whose home office swells the basement of Grays. With the aid of the Tutors in History and Liturature and the Cercle Francais they discovered the animals in the apartments of J. O. Whedon '27, President, and De Witt Endicott '28, prominent member of the Lampoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Guinea Hens Join Yard Cops, Cercle, and Tutors in Grays Basement--Lampoon Heads Silent on Rumored Banquet | 1/7/1927 | See Source »

...Witt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 3, 1927 | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

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