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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...half to exchange Cousin Ned's pipe for a cocktail shaker on receipt of the news that Aunt Alice is going to try having him swear off on smoking instead of drinking this New Year. This time he has been more provident, however, and was careful to select a store that made a conspicuous display of its "No Credits or Exchanges" sign that was reassuring in its finality. For once he is prepared to enjoy the days preceding the festivities in perfect tranquility, and if it later develops that Gloria simply despises Oriental perfume she can give...
...Pickard '29 and R. H. O'Connel '30 were mentioned in a select group of ends of the East, and J. E. Barrett '30 and F. A. Clark '29 were included among the tackles. J. N. Trainer '31 and W. D. Ticknor '31, guards, completed the roster of Crimson linemen in the list...
...standings as evidenced in the records of the College office. At that time several changes were introduced. The custom of honoring specially eight men each year from the Junior Class was inaugurated. Twenty-two seniors were elected at the same time and provision was made for the electors to select later in the year five more students from the Senior Class whose mathematical records would not qualify them for consideration but whose eligibility was incontestable. As years went on this number increased from five to ten and even to 15. This power granted the electing body to search beneath...
...very rare first edition of "The Traveller" with an inscription by the author; Horace Walpole's private copy of the "Retaliation," which was printed in 1774; "Dr. Goldsmith's Celebrated Elegy," an unusually fine first edition with uncut leaves; and one of the two extant copies of "Select Poems of Goldsmith," the first collection of the author's work, only one edition of which was printed...
HORRIBLE TO HEAR is Whiteman's PARADISE WALTZ and GRIEVING select clear...