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Akamazoo, the most spirited horse on the Harvard polo squad, died yesterday. The deep grief felt in the Harvard stables indicates the esteenf in which this chestnut-brown pony was held. It was this plucky beast which lead the Crimson attack on the Lancers on Saturday, and from its back Captain F. S. Nicholas '33 was able to score six goals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLO TEAM SUFFERS LOSS OF MOST SPIRITED MOUNT | 1/12/1932 | See Source »

...Tremont Street gamins paste their noses against the plate glass and whistle. Choirs seek a new Bass for the Halleujiah Chorus and the Junior League trills "Stille Nacht" amid giggles at pronunciation. Beacon Hill buys tins of choclate against the evening when bell ringers and choristers will trudge up Chestnut Street. Ministers fitfully page the Bible and leave it open on the desk at the Gospel of St. Luke. Mothers hide electric engines in the clothes closet at night. Children play with electric engines on a hard-wood floor the next afternoon. Motor cars are set out into...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 12/21/1931 | See Source »

...they think they are going to outwait Spada they will need plenty of patience. This is the chestnut season, and Spada and his men can live on chestnuts for months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Generals, Bandits, Nuts | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

Alice Lee. Unmentioned in his own autobiography is Roosevelt's first marriage. As a junior at Harvard he first met pretty, prim Alice Lee of Chestnut Hill, Mass. His courtship like everything else he did was impetuous. He made the poor girl sit in the gymnasium balcony at Cambridge while he, stripped to the waist fought hard but vainly to win the college lightweight boxing championship. Fits of despair sent him moping to the woods whence he was retrieved by worried relatives. Theodore and Alice were married in Brookline four months after his graduation (Oct. 27, 1880). They traveled abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: T. R. | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

Andrew Eliot Ritchie, Jr. '34, of Chestnut Hill was named second assistant manager at the same time and will have charge of the Second University team. John Farrell Madden '34, of Newton will manage the House teams next year. Both Ritchie and Madden prepared at Country Day School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THREE MEN WIN IN FOOTBALL COMPETITION FOR MANAGERS | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

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