Word: cornerer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deriders of Rotary will learn better very soon now. As Rotarian Gardner Mack wrote only this month in the Rotarian, Rotary has "turned the corner." From a little lunch group brought together by a lonely Chicago lawyer, it has become a huge organization "covering 40-odd separate nations and claiming approximately 130,000 members!" It is outgrowing what Rotarian William Allen White calls its "boy complex," its "garish ex-ternals," its "supersentimentalism and noisy infanticism." It is not unembarrassed by members who say Jesus was the original Rotarian and even bridles when admirers say "there must have been something divine...
...ever so humble, there is no place like a, corner of the earth never before visited by white men. So think ethnologists, natural historians, cartographers, photographers, hunters and peepers and priers and pushers, who year in and year out spend money and lives on arduous expeditions. Some expeditions and their results of late months...
...buildings will contain dormitory accommodations for 238 men, a library of 250,000 volumes, class-rooms, seminars, offices, commons rooms, dining rooms, and an auditorium for gatherings open to the public. This auditorium, accommodating 600 people, will stand at the corner of High and Grove Streets. It will have separate entrances, so that it may be shut off from the School proper if desired. On the High Street front will be offices and seminar rooms, and above them, the library. The offices of the Dean and the Registrar will be placed in the corner of High and Wall Streets...
...President Lowell announced that the University had approved plans for the execution of a dining hall at the corner of Holyoke and Mount Anburn Streets if a petition was signed by 500 students pledging themselves to eat regularly at the hall. The petition was started in circulation at once, chiefly in the Freshman Halls, and to date about 200 signatures have been secured. No organized attempt had been made to obtain names of upperclassmen and graduates, although students in the Architectural School are believed to be interested in the project. The 500 signatures were not considered to be sufficient...
...program follows: Overture to "The Marriage of Figaro" Mozart Ballet Music Gluck-Mottl Tambourin--Gavotte--Chaconne Turkish March from "The Ruins of Athens" Beethoven Ride of the Valkyries from "The Valkyrie" Wagner Cortege from "The Queen of Sheba" Gounod Suite, "Namouna" Lalo "Children's Corner," Suite Debussy-Caplet "Espana," Rhapsody Chabrier Indian Sketches Gilbert Prelude--Invocation--Snake Dance Largo Handel Pomp and Circumstance Elgar