Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seminars are the other specially-planned feature of a Nieman Year. Each week a member of the Faculty prepares a paper or leads a roundtable on his field. The beer and cheese of the Faculty Club--seene of the every-Tuesday sessions--has provoked what many Niemans consider the finest talk of their time here. The Fellows pick their speakers from Faculty, administration, and a few outside sources...
Died. George Ehret Ruppert, 73, younger brother of the late beer baron, Colonel Jacob Ruppert, and longtime vice president of the colonel's New York Yankees (1915-45); in Manhattan...
Mark of Affection. In Long Beach, Calif., Seaman Rudolphus Hill refused to prosecute the jealous lady friend who had laid his scalp open with a beer bottle: he was "happy to know I affect women that...
Perhaps the most convenient remedy for the educational gap in the Houses would be a series of informal bull and beer sessions. At first no big name experts would be called in to cow the undergraduate talkers. Tutors and graduate students might be invited, but only on the understanding that they stimulate rather than scare off the random thoughts of the other members. Some alert House secretary might announce an enticing subject one or twice a week--or, if all went well, several subjects for several talk teams. And if the matter of the meeting veered from the Vandalian invasions...
Physically, the Houses have performed admirably. Although the architects discarded community washrooms, students can meet and listen to each other in dining hall, common room, library, music room, or in each others' suites. Alert House committees and Housemasters have further promoted the Plan with beer parties, dances, smokers, football games, forums bridge and rhumba lessons, and what-have...