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Private elevators lead up to secret dining rooms where male guests may dine "without formally arraying themselves." This is the apex. All the builders of Babylon could do no more...
...Professor Dines Out", which appears in the June "Harpers", has then a special interest as the second of a series. For this essay is but a triad of anecdotes tending to prove the thesis of its predecessor. In a word, the new professor in a provincial college receives few invitations to dinner and those he does receive lead to utter social failures. He finds the president a blusterer. When he forsakes gown to dine with town, he finds the attitude of his hosts vulgarly condescending; while dinner with a colleague proves, to say the least leaden. These, evidently...
...onetime Alice Cohen and her husband, Rufus Daniel Isaacs, were commanded to dine, last week, with the King-Emperor, born George of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. As the imperially commanded pair rode in a smart closed carriage attended by postilions from Windsor railroad station to Windsor Castle, they were cheered as the returning Viceroy and Vicereine of India. For them times have changed...
...onetime Alice Cohen invited to dine with the King? (See COMMONWEALTH...
...passing of the custom to dine in commons has brought a great change in undergraduate life. Quite naturally and quite properly the clubs became centers of small groups of students sharing kindred interests. A small minority of upperclassmen thus have their social needs satisfied through the club system. But for the great majority there is no common rallying ground. . . . And altogether the number of upperclassmen is so great that it cannot be expected that so large a group can be wielded into a unit...