Word: cosmopolitanization
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...find refuge in the hostel of undergraduate vitality, midst the Georgian stretches of Kirkland House. Sacrificing towers, gothic frills and the trimmings to the more pretentious castles along Mt. Auburn Street, Kirkland has watched its legend grow from the strong soil of diverse interests that make up this cosmopolitan House. More than any other, Kirkland has managed to fuse its genuine cross-section of Harvard into a tightly-working group that yearly supports its teams with periodic rallies, and its activities with the only House yearbook to grace local shelves...
Died. Helen Gregory MacGill, 76, Canada's first woman jurist (the Vancouver, B.C. juvenile court for 22 years); Cosmopolitan magazine-sponsored globetrotter of half a century ago, who lost out to a typhoon when she tried to beat Nellie Ely's 72-day around-the-world record; in Chicago...
...Princeton and at Columbia, Secretary of State George C. Marshall also got an honorary LL.D. The General was in cosmopolitan company at Princeton. Among his honored fellows: Historian Arnold J. Toynbee (honorary LL.D.), Cinemactor Jimmy Stewart (honorary M.A.), New York Park Commissioner Robert Moses (honorary LL.D.), Broadway Producer-Director-Actor Jose Ferrer (honorary...
Although Harvard has achieved a highly desirable cosmopolitan makeup in the geographical sense, it still is bound down with a narrow economic clientele that must be expanded if any kind of balance is to be achieved in the undergraduate body. Organized with just this purpose in mind, the National Scholarships must be coupled with new efforts aimed at placing the young men of America's 20 million ill-taught families within examination-range of a Harvard education. This is the greatest share of the responsibility which lies deep in the socially-sensitive philosophy of the National Scholarship plan...
...would be an inevitable part of a larger area: the cosmopolitan jumble of the midtown East Side. Like most Manhattan neighborhoods, this is a bewildering contradiction of new & old, rich & poor, strange & familiar...