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...Gala Ghost. Most luminous ghost will be the Newport scene itself. Since 1881, when the brand-new Casino held the first U.S. national championships, Newport has been queen of the circuit. The first tournament consisted largely of local swells spooning English balls gently over the net for a hundred-odd spectators, be-boatered or be-parasolled. But by 1890 the Casino Governors had transplanted an old Barnum & Bailey grandstand, painted vermilion, to handle the growing crowds. The 1907 season saw the inauguration of a Tennis Ball, to which all players were invited on the generous assumption (long since...
...world's regattas, Oxford's Eights Week was one of the most picturesque and peculiar. Sandwiched into the London social calendar between Ascot and the Henley regatta, it marked the end of the University's summer term with a gala, six-day series of intramural crew races-not ordinary crew races but an Oxford specialty known as bumping races...
This week the glory of the gala commencement on May 27, to which the WAVES of the NSCS have been looking forward since the first day at Radcliffe, ended away in the cold light of the order extending courses on this side of the River until June 11. For us the event will mark the commencement of two long days of final examinations in the main unit of work, and we hope that participation in the ceremony two weeks ahead of actual graduation will have at least one beneficial result in inspiring us to greater success immediately thereafter...
...setting forth final plans for the 1946 Jubilee. Committee Chairman Douglas Danner '46 announced that room permission will be extended to 9:45 o'clock in all Houses before Friday night's four-hour class event. The gala dance, open to members of '46 only, will start at 10 o'clock when Mal Hallett's orchestra accompanies 17-year-old Terry Russell in the first song "chosen to please...
...week has not been without its lighter moments. Patroits' Day made a nice break in the routine of the supply course. Leaving all thought of manuals and specimens behind--for ten minutes--the entire class enjoyed the gala parade from Byerly's windows. And what was even more inspiring, a crew of little patriots in a parade-conscious mood trailed and cheered US all the way home...