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...morning session closed with a buffet Iuncheon at which Lieutenant-Governor Odell Shepard of Connecticut was the speaker. Humanities and a liberal education, he asserted, are a better training for the crisis than the sciences. Extra curricular activities should be curtailed for the duration since they are but luxuries, he said, and state-endowed universities are generally better than those that are privately endowed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: P.B.H. Conference Stresses Defense Role of Colleges | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

Tired, peevish, none of them feeling like accomplished diplomats, much less like statesmen, the delegates Monday night straggled part way up Corcovado peak to an official diplomatic reception in President Vargas' marble Guahabara Palace. They kissed the hand of Senhora Vargas, moved through tapestried halls to a garden buffet table and outdoor cocktail bars. By the time Rio's municipal ballet had flitted on & off an outdoor stage the tropic night had begun to work its magic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Growth of an Ideal | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

Robert H. Hallowell '96, chairman of the Naval Science Visiting Committee of the Board of Overseers was the first speaker. His talk was preceded by a buffet supper, singing, and an original production. "Life in the Navy as seen by the Naval R.O.T.C. Student...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yarnell, Conant Talk At Naval Sci Smoker | 12/4/1941 | See Source »

Before the smoker, a buffet supper will be served to about 275 people and a private dinner will be held for the 21 guests, who include Admiral Tarrant, Commandant of the 1st Naval District, Admiral Cluverius, president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, captains of the Yale, Holy Cross, and Tufts N.R.O.T.C. units, and Colonel Henry T. Jay, head of Military Science, Charles Francis Adams, and the Captain of H.M.S. Newcastle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SMOKER WILL HEAR YARNELL | 12/3/1941 | See Source »

...Buffet supper at Harvard Union. All Union activities are open equally to those Freshmen living in the dormitories and those living at home...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CALENDAR | 9/19/1941 | See Source »

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