Word: delta
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Bolivar County lies down on the rich delta lands of Mississippi opposite the mouth of the Arkansas River. In 1887, when the track of what is now the dinky Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad was laid, Bolivar's rich bottomlands were an uninhabited jungle. The railroad, eager for customers along the route, but fearing that white men would die off under the hot summer sun, decided to try Negroes. Isaiah T. Montgomery, a onetime slave of Jefferson Davis, and his cousin Benjamin T. Green were induced to start a colony. Thus was founded the town of Mound Bayou. Last week...
...Dartmouth, Harry Jr. roomed off-campus in the same yellowish house as Footballer Phil Spartacus Conti. Tall, slender, dark-haired, quiet, he got "gentle-men's" grades in his studies, became Phi Gamma Delta ping-pong champion, was rated a good beer drinker. Over the mantel in his disorderly room was the legend: "Commend a wedded life but keep thyself a bachelor...
Black-haired, blue-eyed and 20, pretty Rose is also secretary-treasurer of the junior class, president of her sorority (Delta Delta Delta), gets excellent marks, majors in government like her brother. Sophomore Russell, president of his class since entering, debates on the varsity team, plans to enter law school next fall. Exclaimed President Rose: "Now maybe I can get some sleep." Next day she began campaigning for class vice president...
Built for the College mess hall in 1870 on the historic "Delta" but now twelve years abandoned as an eating establishment, Memorial Hall is centrally located for advanced workers in many departments...
Willard Scholarship to Joseph T. McCullough 1G, of Athens, Ohio; Austin Scholarship to Hollis M. Levenson 1GEd, of Cambridge; Phi Delta Kappa Scholarship to R. Vernon Hays 1GEd, of Ansley, Nebraska; and University Scholarships to David A. Grodberg 1GEd, of Worcester; and George B. Simon 1GEd, of Newton Center...