Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Centering their discussion about the early organizational problems of the Seminar, John Finch, professor of Literature at Dartmouth and director of the Seminar, Wassily Leontief, professor of Economics, and Florence R. Kluckhohn, lecturer in Sociology, spoke before a capacity audience in the Adams House Upper Common Room...
...world. "I am firm in my belief," wrote Millionaire John J. Raskob in the Ladies' Home Journal for August 1929, "that anyone not only can be rich, but ought to be rich." All anybody needed to do, said Raskob, was save $15 a month, put it into "good common stocks." At the end of 20 years it would have swelled to $80,000 and be yielding $400 a month in income. It was such an easy way to get rich that messenger boys stopped to read the stock-tickers in offices, chauffeurs drove with ears cocked to catch some...
...Long Ride. This, says Asch in effect, is how it might have been. He has borrowed from the Gospels, borrowed from the Apocrypha, borrowed from the traditions of Jewish life. His central purpose has been to make Christians and Jews realize what they have in common: "It has been my intention to demonstrate the interdependence of the two faiths in the hope that mutual understanding might bring about a better world...
...College will receive a full report on the activities of the Salzburg Seminar at 7:30 p.m. tonight, when the Adams House Forum presents a discussion of the Seminar's activities under the topic of "American in Europe," in the Adams Upper Common Room...
According to present plans the studio will be used mainly for concerts by small musical groups, debates, and other shows for which WHRB has heretofore had to use House Common Rooms...