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...house at 5 Philips Place has become even more a meeting place of nations than the UN in recent years, as students from 58 countries gather nightly in its Colonial-style rooms to sip tea, meet new friends, and carry on bull sessions in an atmosphere many degrees more cordial than that at lake Success. Now known as the International Student Center, the pillared, yellow-clapboard house near Radcliffe yard echoed to the first of many non-New England accents in 1941 and became an unofficial consulate that has since eased many foreign students into unfamiliar American ways...
...Cordial & Remote. Over the years, hundreds of B.N.C. students have learned to know and respect the man they refer to as The Principal. Only a few intimates call him by his nickname, "Sonners," which is derived from his pre-1917 name, William Sonnenschein ("my father changed his name at the same time that the then King changed...
Stallybrass is unfailingly cordial to undergraduates when they first "come up," unfailingly remote for some time after. Yet he often stays up late at night, writing letters that follow his favorites-to imperial outposts, to careers in politics and science. When they come back for a visit, he insists on snapping their pictures and putting the pictures in his already cluttered study. His dinners, embellished with gleaming silver from three huge chests and the best of wines, are famous. Over such a dinner, paunchy W.T.S. Stallybrass, with a puff on his filter-tip cigaret, likes to repeat the words...
Fraternal. In Ephrata, Wash., brothers Luther & Homer Gray, meeting for the first time in six years, exchanged a cordial, hearty handshake that fractured Luther...
...ntico leaders thought so. If that happened, the C.T.C. would probably shed its C.T.A.L. connections and hook up with the A.F.L-sponsored, right-wing Inter-American Federation of Labor. But smooth, well-tailored Don Vicente, back in his Mexican penthouse office, said "our relations with Grau are still cordial; he believes, as ever, in the ideals of the C.T.A.L...