Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With Radcliffe girls, however, Thomas Cabot, a Dartmouth junior, discovered that he had to dig up a pair of Christmas-gift argyles from the front lawn of the 20 Walker st. dormitory. The Radcliffe donor, piqued by recent neglect, had buried the knitwear...
Cabot has discovered what most local gentry already know. A suitor never looks a gift-horse in the mouth, a Radcliffe girl in the face, or a sock in the heel. Both knitting and digging develop the wrong muscles...
...Cameron, Jr. '46, chairman of last fall's drive which netted $23,000, outlined a report he has written suggesting possible means of improving the "Service Fund Drive." These include changing the name of the drive, running a campaign each term, and not permitting a contributor to distribute his gift to the charity he wishes...
...four wars, Uncle Charlie has a longer view of the news than most people. He admits, for instance, that Russia is a threat to the U.S., but he wants to wait awhile before making any prognostications about it. "You can't hurry events," he says. His gift for keeping his own counsel applies also to the periodicals he reads, although he did allow that he thought TIME was "a good magazine...
...common rooms and dining halls all over Oxford, there had been plenty of guesses, but the mystery remained unsolved. A wealthy Frenchman had given Oxford one of the biggest gifts in its history-$6,000,000 for a new college-but had insisted on remaining anonymous. Who was he? Announcing the gift last fall, Vice Chancellor John Lowe said he knew but wouldn't tell; the mysterious donor could just go on being Monsieur X (TIME, Sept...