Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pierpont Morgan, of New York City, a graduate of Harvard College in 1889, and head of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Company, bankers, has been chosen as president of the Harvard Alumni Association for the current year, to succeed Allston Burr, '89, of Boston, according to an announcement made public today...
George Whitney, '07, of New York City, a partner in J. P. Morgan & Company, was elected chairman of the standing committee to nominate Overseers of Harvard College, Directors of the Alumni Association, and members of the Harvard Fund Council. Four members of this committee were named at the same time: E. C. Felton, '79, of Haverford, Pennsylvania, former president of the Pennsylvania Steel Company, Dr. E. H. Pool, '95, of New York City, surgeon and Professor of Clinical Surgery at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, J. O. Proctor, Jr., '01, of Milton, lawyer, member of the firm of Goodwin...
...meeting of the Intercollegiate Fencing Association held in New York on Sunday. Harvard was represented by H. W. Clark '23, assistant graduate manager of athletics, and J. D. Allen '31, manager of this year's foil men. Fourteen other colleges in the east sent their representatives to this conference, which was called to discuss proposed changes in the rules and to fix the date for the Intercollegiate meet...
...starts his first year as University coach, will face stiff opposition this season. The opener will be February 12 at Harvard, followed by games away from home with N. Y. U., February 21 and Pennsylvania on the twenty-second of the month. The Army will be met in New York on March 1, Columbia at home on March 8, Yale at home, March 15. The Intercollegiate semi-finals will be held in New Haven on April 5, followed by the finals in New York, April...
Harvard University is itself directly affected by the censorship of books now being so actively discussed. J. S. Phillips, proprietor of the well-known bookstore on Harvard Square, recently made a special trip to New York, that he might secure admission into the United States of copies of Rousseau's "Confessions," and of the complete works of Rabelais, both of which are used in French courses given by the University. For the time being, the situation is very bad, as all books are tied up at the customs office pending developments...