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Section III of the report presents a plan for the subdivision of Harvard College into colleges. "In the old days before Harvard grew to such mammoth proportions eating in commons brought students together. It was fashionable at that time to dine in Memorial Hall, and in consequence all students in the College shared the opportunity of healthy social intercourse and a stimulating interchange of ideas. But in time the club system grew up and the clubs opened their own dining rooms. Memorial Hall ceased to be fashionable. Moreover, the College faced about and headed toward the river, so that Memorial...
Also it seems to me that his "stuff," "Celebrities Dine," in TIME of Jan. 11, 1926, is not real foreign news or worth-while reading except for those who enjoy Town Topics, The Police Gazette...
...long ago (reported the Popular Science Monthly last fortnight) 25 Canadian families sat down in their respective abodes to dine upon a viand new and strange. An unknown meat had been sent with the compliments of the Government, which requested only that each family relate the sensations experienced by its collective palate...
...concealing his presence in London rather cleverly, and had tea in secret with his sister, the Princess Ileana, who is at school near Ascot. He and his dissolute brother, Prince Nicholas, celebrated his renunciation by staging a wild party at Mitchell's, atop Montmartre, Paris (see CELEBRITIES DINE). Later he and the mysterious lady left Vienna to seek a quiet exile in Sweden; and he is expected to arrive shortly at Bucharest, in order to retract his rash step, which he now bitterly regrets...
Seldom has Edward of Wales been placed in a more difficult position. Although indisputably Alexandra's favorite grandson, he was expected, while she lay dying, to dine as the Lord Mayor's guest at a great Guildhall banquet, to which over 800 of his father's most distinguished subjects had been invited for the sole purpose of hearing the Prince discourse officially upon his Empire Tour (TIME, Oct. 23 et ante...