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...I.W.W.), the Reverend Harry Ward (Union Theological Seminary), Robert Morss Lovett (now Government secretary of the Virgin Islands). Though the Garland Fund threw money right & left (mostly left), instead of being depleted, it grew. (It held First National Bank of the City of New York stock during the '20s.) Sixteen years after Charles Garland decided to give away his million, the Fund was close to $2,500,000. Some of this paper profit was wiped out in the crash, but all told the Fund gave away more than twice the original $900,000 principal...
...Department Store (Boston) and elsewhere, he determined to make Dartmouth a college of hemen. He developed the famed Outing Club, made Dartmouth a power in intercollegiate sports, introduced a new system of selection whereby freshmen were picked not only for brains but for all-round ability. In the '20s, Dartmouth men were the prototype of U.S. collegians-prankish, studiously unkempt, boisterous at football games, busy with campus activities, scornful of esthetes...
With undergraduates of the '20s, whom he understood and liked, Hoppy was on intimate terms. Upperclassmen had a standing prank they played on him: they would leave a note on a freshman's desk telling him to call Hanover 65 (Hoppy's number) at 6:05 in the morning and "ask for Ernie, he's in a jam." Hoppy got scores of such calls each year...
...world than that of the Generalissimo's crack divisions. Generalissimo Chiang is 53, Chen Cheng is 41, Chen's Field Chief of Staff is 34. It would be hard to find a divisional or regimental commander in those divisions over 40. Regimental colonels are sometimes in their 20s...
...20s a group of Oxford poets, sparked by W. H. Auden, and including MacNeice, Stephen Spender and C. Day Lewis, staged a revolt against current English linguistic muddlement. By introducing modern technological terms into their verse, and by unburdening themselves of their subconscious minds-let the syntax fall where it might-they tried to make their language reflect life as it was actually being lived...