Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...banqueters were considerably annoyed at Colonel C. R. Apied '06, superintendent of the University caretakers, and a specially invited guest at the stag affair. The Colonel persisted in giving a half-hour speech after all the other scheduled speakers had only taken up five minutes time. But the audience's scorn of Apted was soon lost in the reception given the ladies...
...competition for the selection of the Harvard delegate to the Intercollegiate Poetry Reading Convention will be held in Holden Chapel on Friday at 3.30 o'clock, it was announced by F. C. Packard '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking. The convention which is an annual affair will be held this year at Hunter College in New York on Saturday...
...keep his head above the emotional flood, picks a careful way between whirlpools. But revolutionary Moscow is no place for a spectator: he dodges bullets, gets beaten up on the street, finally leaves Moscow and his whimpering wife for the country. In a provincial town he has an affair with the singer Duniasha, then becomes legal agent for the beauteous Marina, high priestess of a mystic sect. Physically as well as emotionally stingy, he is afraid for a while that Marina may take him as her lover; finally he is afraid that he wants her to. But Marina has more...
...book's coherence suffers from its multiplicity of interests and characters which mingle but never really meet. What story there is is held together by the reappearing career of one Epes Todd, an undergraduate whose passion for football is gradually sublimated into books, redirected into a love affair. Harvard indifference ("a term never used at Harvard"), the baby deans, the Crimson, the Widener Library, athletes, tutors, students, socialites, exams, waiters-on-table, the clubs, lectures, Harvard's golden mean ("Three C's and a D and keep out of the newspapers"), its buildings, traditions, dreams-all these...
...music for the dance will be furnished by Al Storita and his London orchestra. According to custom' the tutors' wives have been asked to act as patronesses. The dance committee, which has arranged all plans for this affair, consists of R. L. Stites '34, chairman; W. B. Pattee '33, D. W. Lewis '35, and Warren Sturgis...