Word: functional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eliot is now the only House not planning some social function for April 23, the evening before the Crimson Key's big open dance in the Indoor Athletic Building...
Johnson C. Montgomery '55, Eliot's Social Committee chairman, said Monday that Finley had influenced him to oppose the prevailing House sentiment, which is in favor of a dance. "The Social Committee and the House as a whole would like to have some social function that Friday," he said, "but the House Administration has indicated that it desires 'we refrain from any organized activity...
...Lean On. In the midst of it all, Naguib, escorted by his bodyguard, drove to Cairo's airport to perform a routine ceremonial function: a goodbye to King Saud of Saudi Arabia, who last week made a royal visit to Cairo. Suddenly Naguib clutched at his heart and fell to the floor, unconscious. When he revived, bystanders reported that he whispered: "I want to die." Later, the man who helped the tottering Naguib was Colonel Abdel Nasser. They walked to his car together, Naguib leaning heavily on Nasser's arm. For the time being, Colonel Nasser was again...
...meetings that policy questions are thrashed out. Should the public be denied all information about these debates, which are clearly of public interest? There is a tendency nowadays to limit the activities of reporters ... to receiving official handouts." The Observer was immediately joined by the Times. "It is no function of newspapers," thundered the Times, "to keep politicians' secrets for them...
...club system, were met with further appeasement. Profiting from Woodrow Wilson's mistake, Lowell told fearful alumni, "I am dividing to save Harvard," then convinced the clubs they would gain in importance with the addition of the Houses. He pictured the buildings along Mt. Auburn Street as serving the function of bringing men of different Houses together and thus somehow preserving the entity of the College. His main argument was that if club men wanted to stay out, they could. The Houses would have voluntary membership. Meals were to be arranged so that all House members could eat out without...