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Earlier in the day, he will dine at the Faculty Club with the Executive Board and sponsors of the U. N. Council, and tomorrow David M. Little '18, Secretary to the University, will welcome him officially to Harvard...
...lady likes ... to dance or dine...
Although the growth of the college would have scaled the doom of the small University Hall Commons sooner or later, the immediate cause of its end was a growing tendency on the part of students to eat elsewhere as often as possible, and when they did chance to dine in Commons, to treat it as a sort of unofficial playground and circus area. The whole early history of the building's first floor features rebellion and riot, which started on a major scale in 1818, when food war broke out between classes. Each class ate in a different room...
...friends often cites the example of an old [relative] who came to dine with his family and about whom they said with a certain air: 'Jules cannot abide the English. . . .'If someone . . . made an allusion to Great Britain or its Dominions, Uncle Jules pretended to go into a fury and felt himself come to life for a moment. Everyone was happy. Many people are anti-Semites in the same way as Uncle Jules was an Anjlophobe. . . . Simple reflections, reeds bent in the wind . . . they are the ones who, in all indifference, insure the survival of anti-Semitism . . . through...
...other institutions. Most famed offspring: the Round Table, "a crowd of unusually agreeable folk": Alexander Woollcott, George S. Kaufman, "F.P.A.", Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, Heywood Broun. In the twenties, they lunched together in the Oak Room. But when they died or drifted away, there were always younger wits to dine in the Oak Room and younger actors to sleep where John Barrymore had slept. Despite occasional rough going, the Algonquin usually earned a profit (last year...