Word: banquet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Columnist Walter Lippmann is scheduled to speak on "Our present Crisis" at the anniversary banquet which will also be addressed by Andre Morize, professor of French Literature, and by Dr. Dirk H. Van Der Stucken, commentator on international events...
...most essential of Technology traditions. Currently the Institute boys claim to have boycotted a young instructor who had turned out to be a Harvard A.B. Every student organization joins in propaganda for the one-way scrap; popular professors begin their courses with a stock Harvard joke; and the Freshman banquet gives rousing cheers for patriot Thomas Amasa Walker, "the guy that kept us from joining up with Harvard...
...equally plausible as a bearded gaffer or a youngster with Jewish ritual earlocks. Here he sings in Yiddish and Hebrew, deftly sets forth the garrulity, gaiety, self-pitying anguish of an Eastern European Jew. Typical song: Scholoch S'udes, in which a rabbi unctuously presides at a banquet...
While ASCAP planned this succulent banquet, many were the gags about B. M. I.'s musical mashed potatoes. So often had B. M. I.'s Jeannie With the Light Brown Hair been played that she was widely reported to have turned grey. While crooners moaned tunes the old cow died of, ASCAPers rattled the barn doors with parody titles such as: "When the swallows come back to ASCAP-istrano," such rhymes...
...Harvard's oldest living graduates, Henry Alden Clark '74, will celebrate his ninety-first birthday today in Erie, Pennsylvania. A former editor of the CRIMSON, he can remember sitting beside Oliver Wendell Holmes at a banquet of the Magenta, one of the college's earliest literary magazines...