Word: spring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Already a recipient of numerous scholarship awards, in his Senior year Mr. Nichols received a Rhodes Scholarship and went to England where he studied for a year at Balliol College, Oxford. His appointment as assistant dean of Freshmen at Harvard was announced in the spring of 1927, and he returned in the fall to take up his duties as Freshman dean, sharing the responsibility with Mitchell Gratwick '22, who is also resigning at the end of his two years of service. Both men will continue in office until the end of the present college year...
After spending the past week training at Syracuse, N. Y. Harvard's lacrosse team terminated its spring practices at Schenectady, N. Y. on Saturday with a 9 to 1 drubbing at the hands of Union College. Previous to their departure for Syracuse the team had won a game from the Alumni by a score...
...National League, however, there is a real rival for the chesty Yankees. Backed by the chewing-gum millions of William Wrigley Jr., Manager Joe McCarthy has built up a formidable combination. Said Bucky Harris after the Chicago Cubs had beaten his Detroit Tigers five straight games in spring training: "It is the greatest team I have ever seen on a baseball field." Harris has seen the Yankees. He has seen them at their best...
...spring training season has brought forth the usual crop of future Babe Ruths and Grover Cleveland Alexanders. They have flashed in the southern sun as have others before them. Now they are "great." TIME publishes a list of them. In July TIME will publish the same list with word as to which have stayed "great." which returned to the bush leagues. The list...
Author Edgar Wallace's reputation for speed, no comic myth, follows logically enough upon prolific production. Last year he had six successes on the London stage, and in New York The Sign of the Leopard. In the spring, when only four of his plays were running simultaneously, he gave a banquet at the Savoy for his theatrical employes, and his guests numbered 590. Not content with writing the plays and entertaining the players, he has latterly become his own producer and designer of scenes-all this being a development of the last three years. Readers of the morning papers...