Word: young
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...patently political appointment, but far from scandalous. A product of Louisville, Commissioner Lucas, now 41, was elected city police court prosecutor in 1917, his first public office. Blackhaired, handsome, alert, the young man managed to outshine the higher court officials of the time...
...parodied a rhymster four years ago when A. A. Milne's When We Were Very Young was new and Theodore Roosevelt Jr., having failed to become Governor of New York, had set off for the wild Pamir region of Asia to hunt Marco Polo's lost sheep (Ovis poli) for Chicago's Field Museum. Last week Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was again playing, in an Indo-Chinese place where the wild beasts race, when he succeeded at last in becoming a Governor ?of Porto Rico?by appointment of President Hoover...
...Pierce 307 English 3b Emerson J English 29b Memorial Hall Fine Arts 1d New Fogg Lect. Rm. French 7 Emerson D Geology 8 Harvard 6 German 1b Dr. Heffner's section 1 Sever 5 Mr. Evans's section 2 Atkinson-Gaffney Sever 5 Mr. Evans's section 2 Hale-Young Sever 6 Mr. McCoy's section 3 Sever 6 German 5 Sever 30 German 7 Sever 29 Government 9a Memorial Hall Greek 12 Sever 29 History 5b New Lect. Hall History 8 Emerson J History 9 Harvard 6 Latin B Mr. Peterkin, I Sever 17 Prof. Rand, II Sever...
...yard high hurdles--Three men in each heat qualified for semifinals. First heat--won by Collier (Brown); second, Furth (N.Y.U.); third, Smith (Stanford); fourth, Clark (Cornell). Time--14 4-5. Second heat--won by McCoy (Penn); second, Nichols (Stanford); third, Devoe (Yale); fourth, Young (Cornell). Time--15 1-5 sec. Third heat--won by Edmonds (Stanford); second, Webber (Southern California); third, Putnam (Dartmouth); fourth, Stollwerck (Colgate). Time--15 1-10 sec. Heat for fourth men (one to qualify for semifinals). Won by Stollwerek (Colgate). Time...
...slender. Tuition had to be $200 a year. $50 more than Harvard students paid, and representing a relatively much greater outlay today. Work was begun in four rented rooms in the house at 6 Appian Way. But thirtyeight Harvard instructors were eventually engaged to teach the twenty-seven young women who enrolled. The work was actually launched with the class of three in elementary Greek, taught by Le Baron Russell Briggs, who had been graduated from Harvard in 1875, and was destined to become the president of the new women's college...