Word: establisher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...name. At Christmas every student who was unable to go home for the vacation was asked to have Christmas Dinner at his home. He has the habit of dropping into the dining room to join one or another of the undergraduate groups at table almost daily. His effort to establish friendly relationships with the House members is one of the most outstanding things about Winthrop, especially so since he is exceptionally successful in that effort...
...desired, even if it has to be crudely manufactured. In many ways it has played the sedulous ape to Balliol, a practice not too well received. As someone remarked, the House is attempting to look smart in a borrowed pair of old pants. Lowell has been the first to establish practically every House activity. It was the first to look for a House crost, staged the initial House dance, put House athletic teams in the field the first year long before Dunster. It desired House colors and forced all the other Houses to adopt them also. Now Lowell ties have...
...thirteenth question, which asked the non-resident students to list any changes which they thought would improve the value of the college to them, brought in some interesting answers. One commuter proposed that the University establish some well-kept centrally located bulletin board where all notices could be posted. This was thought necessary because commuters never have occasion to visit Sever, the Yard dormitories, or the Houses where more or less complete boards are kept. Another protested about the lack of any central meeting place where commuters can eat with their resident college friends, or study between classes...
...western gate runs the ceaseless traffic of Boylston Street and beyond it the dreary maze of the trolley car terminal. Kirkland, without the freshness of a new House, without the relief of the Charles to turn to, and with the hurly-burly of Cambridge at its back-door must establish its reputation in other ways...
...four of the list are the "Four Horsemen," most celebrated contract bridge team in the U. S. Last year they won the National Open Challenge Championship, the Vanderbilt Cup and enough challenge matches to establish unprecedented superiority. When hulking Hal Sims, onetime tennis champion of South America, and wiry Willard Karn, who looks a little like Ely Culbertson, won the National Pair Championship, they put themselves a notch above their teammates. The question of individual superiority was settled in the first Individual Masters' Championship. The tournament was held at P. Hal Sims's house, in Deal, N. J. Willard Karn...