Word: dining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noon on Commencement day, '32 will have its spread in the Strauss Quadrangle of the Yard, while wives and senior sons and daughters dine in the Union...
...Although the grant was made for only one House, it was assumed that if this was successful eventually all undergraduates would be lodged in Houses. Few liked the idea. Students felt that their prized individualism, "completely self-wrought," would be taken away once they were forced to live and dine with a group of people chosen by Faculty members. The CRIMSON attacked the plan, and the Lampoon published a "Protest of the Masses Number" which heaped the full wrath of the Faculty and Administration upon its head. An apology to Mr. Harkness was demanded, and the 'Poonies, moaning that...
...Junior Fellows continue the old practice of lunching together twice a week (Tuesday and Friday) in the Society's rooms in Eliot House. On Monday evenings they dine with the Senior Fellows and a number of specially invited guests. Homans and Bailey have provided a description of one of these dinners...
Twelve Angry Men (Orion-Nova; United Artists). "And wretches hang," wrote Alexander Pope, "that jurymen may dine." The force of Pope's words came home to Television Playwright Reginald Rose when he served on a New York jury. In 1954, in a 50-minute playlet produced on CBS, he threw a harsh light on the dangers inherent in trial by jury. He sat a national audience in the jury box and let them find out for themselves what an abyss of conscience the plank of constitutional law is laid across, and how it feels...
...that the French would not allow them to organize a school for girls did he realize that nonroyal Moslem girls did not go to school, promptly promised, "I will make my daughter Aisha the missionary of feminine emancipation." During the wartime Casablanca Conference, President Franklin Roosevelt invited him to dine. It was the first time Morocco's Sultan had been allowed to meet any foreign head of state, and though he would not agree to declare war against Germany, he got from the meeting an increased sense of his own policical importance...