Word: bickersteth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bickersteth of Hart House, the University of Toronto, was elected president; Mr. E. S. Drake of the Ohio University Union was elected secretary-treasurer; and Mr. F. B. Foster '17 was elected third member of the executive committee...
That Harvard is very similar to the English university and quite unlike the average American or Canadian university was the view expressed by Mr. J. B. Bickersteth, Manager of Hart House at the University of Toronto, when interviewed yesterday by a CRIMSON reporter. Mr. Bickersteth has been attending the convention of the Association of College and University Unions here at the University since Thursday...
...coming to Harvard, I have been conscious of coming into an old atmosphere--one with great traditions behind it", said Mr. Bickersteth. "It brings me back into the atmosphere of Oxford. Harvard's buildings, of many different types, remind me of Oxford, where, for instance, the architecture of Queens College is so unlike Christ College...
...Bickersteth was also very much impressed by the professors he had met during his stay here; "they are awfully acute people", he said. On the other hand he was surprised to find that, while the University was carrying on work of great value in the drama under Professor Baker, it had no theatre at its disposal...
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