Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nobel Prize committee passed over Mark Twain, Ibsen, Hardy, Gorky, Chekhov, Conrad, Henry James, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Arnold Bennett, Willa Gather, Swinburne, George Meredith, Zola, Proust, Joyce, H. G. Wells, D. H. Lawrence, Rainer Maria Rilke. Its greatest oversight: although it was established in 1901, and Tolstoy did not die until 1910, it never gave an award to the greatest novelist of them...
...brothers gather their gossip and opinion by a busy round of telephoning, lunching and buttonholing sources. Then they meet to decide who writes the next column, or whether they should do it jointly. Their contacts are largely second-level Government men like Harvardman Charles ("Chip") Bohlen and ECA's Dick Bissell, an old Grottie of Joe's class. The Alsops think press conferences a waste of time, go to Harry Truman's only a couple of times a year, just "to see what the President looks like...
Following the Commencement at 12:15 o'clock, the new and old graduates will gather, for the ceremonious Alumni Spreads, the Class of 1923 dining in the Straus Hall quadrangle. Under Robert F. Bradford '23, Governor of Massachusetts and Chief Marshal of the Alumni, the entire Alumni body will pass in review before President Conant and other dignitaries on the steps of Widener Library...
...still teaches. Almost every undergraduate takes "Casey's Lit," a course that rambles amiably from Dante to Spenser to whatever pops into Casey's head. At his weekly talk in chapel, students still "wood" him (stamp their feet in applause). And after big games, they still gather about his Colonial house and yell "We want Casey!" until he emerges, beaming and blushing...
Despite its decisive whitewashing, the Crimson tennis team wound up a relatively successful campaign this weekend, by virtue of its ten-and-two season's record, quite an improvement for a team that could only gather two wins all last year...