Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months ago the University Student Hygiene Committee began a thorough investigation of the Hygiene Department. Representing virtually the entire University, the Committee was formed in response to pressure last summer by the Law School Record to gather evidence and report on "whether the Department provides the best possible service for the fee charged." For a while it looked as if something revealing might soon come of the probe, but later the investigation slipped quietly into the background, and as yet no report has been submitted...
...would doubtless be le mot de Cambronne.* And even those committees, most of them, were hardly more than at Halfway House : nobody was surrendering any national sovereignty just yet. But there was more to come. At The Hague this week, Europeans who want a United States of Europe will gather to talk it over. No government has sponsored their meeting, but hundreds of British and French publicists and politicians, including Winston Churchill, will attend. Some of them have a precise objective: to rouse so much backing for a U.S.E. that, by fall, delegates can assemble to draft a Western European...
...next century, the seminar across the Common began to gather a teaching staff of its own, and by the opening of the twentieth century had a small but distinct faculty. However, during all this growth, the backbone, the drawing appeal, the top names on the Radcliffe lists were members of the Harvard Faculties. As President Eliot's elective plan widened the offerings for male scholars, the ladies also benefited, for more and more courses were given both here and the at the Annex...
...Douglas supporters will be out in force to plug for their favorite when they gather to urge the Supreme Court Justice's nomination as Democratic presidential candidate...
...clock tomorrow morning, about 280 members of a senior class of 350 will gather in flat-hats and discreetly pinned-up graduation gowns to roll their hoops and propel their forms across the hilly Waban track...