Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During Dean Greenough's absence from University Hall. Professor G. B. Chase '96, of the Archacological Department, will serve as Acting Dean of Harvard College. Professor Chase is at present a member of the Administrative Board and is familiar with the duties of the Dean's Office. Dean Greenough will return to Cambridge before the opening of college in September and take up again his duties in both the Dean's Office and the English Department...
Cowley Fathers Are Familiar Sight...
...Cowley fathers, who will occupy their new home as soon as it is completed this spring, are already a familiar sight, in their flowing black capes and broad-brimmed hats, about the Yard and Harvard square. At present those of them who are administering to the needs of Harvard students are living in a small house at 14 Oxford street, rented from the University. At their head is the Rev. Granville M. Williams, although the work is under the general supervision of the Rev. Spence Burton '04, father superior of the Boston mission...
...weeks, the President has been meditating on the choice of a successor. For many years, the holder of the post has been a man expert in the technical side of farming. The President announced his belief that, at the present time, it was more important to appoint a man familiar with the business side of farming. He offered the post to Secretary Hoover who declined it, promising to assist, however, in the selection of a proper person. It was reported that the President has on his desk a report on 150 to 180 men who have been suggested...
...expensive, and to change their fashions as often as costumiers can invent new ones, because to wear an obviously different style of dress every few weeks is a conspicuous way of showing that they can afford to waste money. There are other signs with which we are also familiar. No English public school can now compete with some American Universities in their enthusiasm for sport, and they are only following our English lead when they discover moral reasons for sacrificing the upper-class youth of the country to the unit of athletics. Most significant of all, however, is the growth...