Word: tree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...named yesterday by the Class Day Committee as head usher for Class Day from the Junior Class. At the same time, Nathaniel Saltonstall Howe '26, of New York City, was appointed head usher for the Senior Spread, and Ranlet Miner '25 of Rochester, N. Y., was made Tree Orator. Announcement was also made of the winners of the contests for the Baccalaureate Hymn and for the designs of the Yard. Stadium, and Memorial Hall tickets. The Hymn selected was written by Hugh Whitney '25, of Paris, France, and the winning ticket designs were submitted by Lefferts Malcolm Millard...
...Tree Orator delivers the address which is made annually to the Senior Class in the vicinity of Holden Chapel on Class Day. Only members of the Senior Class are permitted to attend...
Rubber-plating. The colloidal particles in the sap of the rubber tree and in artificial rubber solutions are electrically charged. It was found possible to immerse pieces of metal in a bath containing these particles, charge the metal with a current of opposite sign to the charge in the rubber, and "rubber plate" objects just as silverware is electroplated. Deposits of rubber a fifth of an inch thick were obtained. Vulcanized, the deposits were found to adhere more tightly than ever. It was predicted that fabrics could be similarly treated and the rubber-garment business revolutionized...
...Black Duck dinner cooked by Hot Biscuit Slim; that Johnny Inkslinger, Bunyan's scribe, slept only three hours each week and had 25 barrels of ink hooked up by hoses to his fountain pen; that Great Salt Lake came to be when Paul Bunyan hewed down the stone-tree forests of Utah-these and similar facts are a valuable increment to the Nation's stories of its past, and better reading than any given dozen of psychological novels...
...their homes. At Christmas time, the Cambridge Welfare Union again recommended 25 boys to whom presents were to be given, telling us the particular wish of each of the boys. The boys all came to the Phillips Brooks House and there received their presents and enjoyed the Christmas tree. This proved to be a great success. This work was done by the Welfare Committee...