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Since Sewanee and Vanderbilt University, pioneers in Southern college sports, have played football it has been a tradition that each week preceding the Thanksgiving football game of the years that Sewanee defeats her old rival, a "baby" has been heard to cry somewhere on the campus each night exactly at midnight...
...fall of 1924, while I was a sophomore at Sewanee the "baby" was heard to cry each midnight in the college chapel for seven nights preceding Sewanee's 24-0 victory over Vanderbilt...
...part of the week the chapel was crowded, students were on the roof, in the choir stalls, stationed in every possible part of the chapel inside & outside. The location of the ''baby" was never ascertained. The "baby" has not cried since 1924 and Sewanee has not defeated Vanderbilt in football since that fall...
Born. To William Henry Vanderbilt. president of the Rhode Island State Senate ; and Mrs. (Anne Gordon Colby) Vanderbilt; twin daughters (7 Ib. 6 oz. and 5 Ib. 11 oz.) as forecast last month by X-ray (TIME, Feb. 16); in Manhattan's York House, socialite maternity hospital. Names: Elsie French and Edith Hyde...
Engaged. Alice Szechenyi, 19, daughter of Count Laszlo Szechenyi. Hungarian Minister to the U. S. and Countess Gladys Szechenyi who was the late Cornelius Vanderbilt's daughter; and Count Bela Hadik, 26, son of an oldtime Hungarian Prime Minister...