Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Readjustment of the dining hours is clearly a matter for inter-House action, except in the case of Adams and Dunster which have separate kitchens. The others must have a group arrangement for cooking and service, unless the Comptroller's office loses its ancient inflexibility far enough to smile upon an uneconomic project. If group action were set afoot to put the evening mealtime forward, and a minority blocked the way, it would be right and necessary to overrule the wishes of the minority in favor of the far greater number. Even to the few, no great inconvenience would result...
...suppose this criticism was answered in a similar vein. One might say here is a mayor caught in a ticklish, political situation. He knows that, in addition to the ancient hostility of the town to the gown, there has been growing up a rather wide-spread resentment in Cambridge be the antics of a few New Era professors, and that he is very likely to be the recipient in the coming election of many a vocal brickbat aimed at the subrosa employment of these Messiahs. He well knows that his irrelevant answer to your editorial will be considered...
...notices are good, if the artist earns enough to pay expenses, he is considered a success. A long cross-country tour is scheduled for the next year. Last winter the new foreign dancer who impressed New York most was Uday Shankar, who in an aloof, compelling way proved that ancient Hindu dances can be made into exciting theatre (TIME, Jan. 9). In ten weeks he grossed $160,000-enough to pay traveling expenses for himself and a troupe of 13 from Calcutta and back, enough to pay for a theatre, for extensive advertising and to have left over a profit...
...this is done what is needed is a short cut, which would enable a man to get a good knowledge of the Classics within the confines of a single course. There is only one way in which this may be obtained; namely, by establishing a course in which the ancient authors would be given translation, thus eliminating the great time wasting factor. Such a course would naturally have as a basis the reading of the writers of antiquity, and with this as a foundation the lecturer could devote himself not so much to criticism or interpretation of the reading...
Ranking with the H.A.A. as one of Harvard's less exclusive clubs is the Harvard Cooperative Society. In former days, that ancient and rather misinterpreted tradition of the Society, the Dividend, gave the organization a solidarity which dues-paying members of swankier clubs rarely felt. Nowadays the callow student regards his $1.76 annual salary as a mere wage for the trouble of eternal searching through his pockets for a coop card...