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Long years ago our fathers in the pride of their youth set out to build up a Radcliffe tradition. She had chestnut hair, in long braids; she had large, low heeled, button shoes; she had cotton stockings. She wandered into the library like the witch of Endor and enquired if the lost volume of Kant had been returned. She raised Christian eye brows when a student said, "Hell." She peered through thick glasses and talked through a shiny nose. A thoroughly unattractive figure...
...Wilmer Allison of Austin, Tex., and John Van Ryn of Philadelphia: the U. S. tennis doubles championship; by beating Berkeley Bell & Gregory Mangin 6-4. 8-6. 6-3 in the finals at Chestnut Hill, Mass. ¶ Kaye Don, in Miss England II: the first heat of the Harmsworth Trophy Race, for speedboats, at 89:913 m.p.h.; beating famed Gar Wood of Detroit, in Miss America IX, and his brother George in Miss America VIII; at Detroit. In the second heat, watched by a crowd of 500,000 and won by George Wood, both Kaye Don and Gar Wood were...
...Chestnut Hill Academy...
Jack Sharkey, heavyweight boxer, driving his automobile near Brookline, Mass., stopped at a hail of distress near Chestnut Hill reservoir. From an automobile partly submerged in the water he pulled one Mrs. Henry Robbins and one Joseph E. McMorrow who had been teaching the woman to drive when she lost control...
...Mate, three-year-old chestnut, owned by A. C. Bostwick: the Preakness at Pimlico, beating Mrs. Payne Whitney's Twenty Grand by a length and a half, with Ladder, an outsider, third, and Equipoise, second choice and winter book favorite for the Kentucky Derby, fourth. Twenty Grand and Equipoise took each other out of the race at the clubhouse turn when both tried to go through the same hole along the rail...