Word: amhersts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor Saltonstall promptly appointed to succeed Mr. Reardon, Walter Francis Downey, headmaster of Boston English High School, like Mr. Reardon, a Roman Catholic. Trim, white-haired Walter Downey, 54, a summa cum laude graduate of Amherst and a crack tennis player, sits on the bench with coaches and players at English High football games, in his excitement twists & squirms as hard as anyone on the field...
...further provides for a gradual increase in this Old Age Insurance Tax to six percent by 1948. To meet these payments fraternities will be forced eventually to cut down on either wages or jobs, hurting those who most need financial help. Thus is higher education encouraged...." --The Amherst Student...
Finishing with a fine last lap that left him nine-tenths of a second ahead of Harvard's Frannie Powers, the Springfield natator hung up a record of 2:18:8 for the furlong, best ever made in the league compromising the smaller colleges such as Amherst, Brown, Wesleyan, and Williams. Powers swam a strong race all the way, but Rawstrom's final surge carried him half a body's length ahead to win. Powers' time (unofficial), 2:19:7, was exactly the same as his clocking in the Freshman meet against Yale last year...
Other women's colleges are known to be aiding refugee students. Mount Holyoke and Bryn Mawr have already raised enough for three students. Drives are under way at Dartmouth, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Maine. Amherst, Tulane and Chicago are also reported to have helped many students...
...Vassar and Amherst College glee clubs and the Pierian Sodality of 1808 collaborated on a concert of American music in Poughkeepsie Saturday night. Harvard's string orchestra of 20 picked Pierian musicians, conducted by Malcolm H. Holmes '28, was joined by Vassar in rendering Carl P. Woods' "Winter Winds" and by Amherst in Robert Delaney's "Night...