Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Forums in the Common Room, studying in the library, meal chats with tutors: these go on always, varied now and then by a new organization, a new activity when some student or tutor has a bright idea. The thought of having a Hungarian refugee enter the House was a joint effort of tutor-student minds, and with enthusiasm and speed the House topped its goal and made the plan possible. This reaction raised high hopes that the next three years will be unusually stimulating with George Heimler, 19-year-old former resident of Budapest, living in the House. No special...
...house members. Here, more than in other houses, the tutors can regularly be found joining in at bridge, going out for a snack or drink with a few boys, joking around at a small party, or most often, just sitting and discussing some subject of general interest in the common room...
...houses have common rooms, but Dunster's is an institution. Although in size the smallest, the Dunster common room always contains great numbers of students. After-dinner coffee is accompanied by two or three chess games, a group around the piano, a half dozen people reading papers and magazines, and the traditional arguments with tutors...
...until the Bolshevik revolt, legally Latvian until 1941 when Latvia was annexed. Then he became German where his family had emigrated some time before as their familial holdings had been confiscated. But, says Professor von Blanckenhagen, scholarship is universal. "In spite of national difference, what good scholars have in common is much more important than the differences in their cultural background." He feels himself very much of an American, and he says, though he is overly modest about his command of the language, that he finds English a happier means to express his thoughts than his native German. "English forces...
...tutorial staff, headed by Allston Burr Senior Tutor Albert A. Mavrinac, is gradually becoming a more integral force in House activities, helping to found science, choral, language, and economics groups. Each Wednesday evening the resident tutors, together with any House members who choose to come, gather in the Senior Common Room to chat and sip sherry...