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With their quadrangles, masters, fellows and common halls, where students are expected to dine and converse urbanely, the Yale planners might seem to be aping the British manner. Yet the Yale (and Harvard) "House Plan" had its forerunner in U. S. colleges long ago. In 1897 a Princeton political economy professor named Woodrow Wilson began thinking about the advisability of re-organization of college life. Basic trouble at Princeton, he thought, was the clubs. President McCosh had suppressed the Greek-letter fraternities; but their successors, the upper-class eating clubs, were just as bad. ''The side shows are swallowing...
Members of the society may bring guests if they wish, and may also dine in the Main Dining Room of the Harvard Club at 6:30 o'clock whether or not they are members of the Harvard Club...
Part of the Hitler fireworks was a gesture of menace at the jews. Instantly this remarkable people took steps. Dine with a leading German-Jewish banker today and you will note that: i) His plate is no longer gold or silver but china; 2) His women are either out of Germany altogether or if present are not wearing their jewels, which are probably in Paris, London or Amsterdam vaults. The banker has been getting his money out too. Silently the Jews have taken their precautions, taken upon Germany a terrible vengeance for the wild words of "Handsome Adolf...
...half time in, the period but Harvard could not capitalize and score. It was not long though before Garrison broke through and drew first blood. While Dewar wan playing around with the puck preparatory to taking it down the ice the Harvard center stole up on him, took the dine away from him and skated down the ice, sending the puck past Ames before the Toronto goalie had realized what had happened. The period was 14 minutes and ten seconds old when Garrison scored...
...page may work, but prefers to play, And his greatest joy is three meals a day, So when Marshall invited the pages to dine Not one of the boys was heard to decline. . . . This fine innovation was given each year, As long as Tom Marshall remained with us here, And then came Coolidge, so silent, yet plain. Quoth he: "Lads must eat, so let's choose It again." . . . So thus the tradition established in fact Decreed a Vice President thereafter shall act. Now when Dawes, with his pipe with its inverted flue Appeared on the scene, which...