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...years ago on a drizzly December morning 75 Russians stood in the lounge of the M. S. Lafayette, each solemnly breaking off a bit of rye bread and dipping it in salt. The ceremony was an ancient one, observed in Russia by peasants and tsars. On this occasion it was intended to bring good fortune to the dancers of the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe, arriving in Manhattan for their first U. S. season...
Squash racquets attracted Eleonora Sears's attention in 1918. Some male player brashly asked if she had ever tried her hand at the game. "No," she said, "but I could." She challenged the ablest male player in Rye, N. Y., won the match. After that, she pioneered by playing squash racquets on the courts of men's clubs in Boston. When a women's championship was finally arranged in 1928, she won it. Since then, she has remained one of the ablest players in the country...
Announcement was also made of the appointment of Frederick W. Rye. 1G. B. as Freshman Lacrosse Coach. Rys is a graduate of Cornell and starred in lacrosse there as an undergraduate...
...winners this year are Paul C. Henshaw '36, Rye, N. Y.; Newton A. Levine '36, Roxbury, Mass.; Douglas T. McClay '36, Mattapan, Mass.; Daniel W. Meyer '36, Scarsdale, N. Y.; Albert L. Robinoitz '36, Cheises, Mass.; David Savan '36, Manchester, N. H.; Francis J. Whitefield '36, Springfield, Mass.; Jerome S. Zurkow '36, New York, N. Y.; William A. Beardslee '37, New Brunswick, N. J.; Alfred Biberman '37, Philsdelphia, Pa.; Milton Elkin '37, Roxbury, Mass.; Arthur J. Linenthal '37, Brookline, Mass.; Peter Megalonakis '37, Boston, Mass.; Neil G. Melone '37, Minneapolis, Minn.; Lionel F. Miller Jr. '37, Saranac Lake...
...have shrugged our shoulders when we have seen cotton run up & down the scale between 4½? and 28?; wheat run down & up the scale between $1.50 and 30?; corn, hogs, cattle, potatoes, rye, peaches-all of them fluctuating from month to month and from year to year in mad gyrations which, of necessity, have left the growers of them speculators against their will. . . . We sought to stop the rule of tooth & claw that threw farmers into bankruptcy or turned them virtually into serfs, forced them to let their buildings, fences and machinery deteriorate, made them rob their soil...