Word: dining
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Perkins has many inherited traditions to help him. Mr. Coolidge, the first House master, imported a democratic version of the Oxford High table for the House. High Table now meets every other Monday night; the tower is lighted at six-thirty, ten seniors (invited in rotation) dine formally with the master, tutor, and guests on a raised dais at one end of the hall. Perkins puts his own touch to this institution as well as adding a weekly session of cucumber sandwiches presided over by Mrs. Perkins. There is a standing invitation for all House members...
...dinner at the Faculty Club early this evening will be Stevenson's first public appearance in Cambridge. He will dine with President Pusey and faculty members including Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, professor of History--one of his campaign aides. The exact time and place of his arrival were still secret last night...
...live, dine, study and tutor in the Houses today it is fitting that we as students and tutors be reminded of ho much we owe to Mr. Lowell, who was born ninety-seven years ago Sunday. A. C. Hanford, Professor of Government...
Suddenly, the lights went out-one of Bermuda's periodic power failures. In the eerie light of candles and battery lamps, the leaders of the West conversed for another half hour, then adjourned to dine (black tie) and talk again next day. So it went for three more full days, without ever achieving the drama which the occasion and cast seemed to suggest...
...Dine Together. When Congregationalist Blaisdell first arrived at Claremont in 1910, he moved into a world that was anything but prosperous. Pomona College, which he took over, was a dingy, debt-ridden place with an enrollment of 300 and only five buildings. Blaisdell immediately set to work writing alumni for funds. He made speeches, broadcast the name of Pomona across the state. By the end of World War I. Pomona had 750 students and more applicants than it could handle. It was then that Blaisdell made his decision : instead of allowing Pomona to grow into one big campus...