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...fraternity houseparties the absurd and jovial dignity of top-hats, frock-coats and waistcoats with pearl buttons. Seniors rig themselves on Derby Day in the clownish regalia of sailors, goat-bearded farmers, raffish monks or intoxicated nuns. When, four years ago, this mood of conviviality caused an undergraduate to establish a bar in the bottom of a two-story charabanc, efforts were made to modify the diversions of Yale's Derby Day. It remained, last week, the chief holiday week-end of New Haven's spring. A quota of canoes, rocked by apparently inebriate paddlers, capsized above...
...Bliss (whose private collection was inherited by Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art-see p. 29). Morgan Partner Cochran played football at Andover (1890) and Yale (1894). Returning later to Andover for a commencement reunion, he found it again to his liking, went back to Wall Street to establish a pool from which the school has received some $11,000,000 in anonymous donations. Other notable gifts: A bronze sculpture by Paul Manship (The Cycle of Life}; a fund to increase professorial salaries and insure sabbatical years for Andover's older teachers; $1,000,000 for keeping...
...Hosei Nine are a formidable aggregation of individual stars and are clean cut, aggressive young players that do honor to their nation. With such international competition annually, there would be little need for outstanding diplomats, as these "messengers of good will" do more to establish friendly relations and better understanding between the common people of their nations than any number of letters of state or diplomatic visits...
...else in sight. He decided after elaborate trials that long-legged Robert Goodale was more dependable than Herbert Shepard, who stroked last year's freshmen. But Leader was respectful of Columbia; the way they beat the Navy three weeks ago meant power, a boat that might establish the old-time supremacy of New York City oarsmen...
...time by an Episcopal clergyman, though not in the Church nor with the prayer-book service. Second marriage, at present sanctioned only for the innocent party in a divorce for adultery, would be in the discretion of a Bishop or an ecclesiastical court which the new Canon proposes to establish. Also administered by Bishop or court would be annulment-the only means by which the Church would allow a marriage to be dissolved-on nine grounds: 1) Lack of free consent; 2) Failure of either party to have reached the age of puberty; 3) Impotence of either party; 4) Mental...