Word: gown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Billy Graham who walked into Great Saint Mary's for his first preaching session was a long way from Georgia, or even from London's Harringay Arena. There was no singing, no platform to pace, no lapel microphone,' no special lighting. Dressed in a black academic gown with the red, green and gold hood of an honorary doctor of laws (Houghton College, N.Y., '50), he stood in the cramped quarters of the pulpit before a crowd of 1,200 which had left behind an overflow queue two blocks long. When he began to speak, probably...
...members-- to live and bring up children. What is needed is a high-level Citizens' Committee that would include representatives of Harvard, M.I.T. and other groups in the city--the kind of University-community project that has served in many American cities to solve civic problems and improve town-gown relations. The City Council should move to set up such a committee, and the two local universities should name official representatives to it. This action would not solve any problems overnight, but in the long run it might help Harvard and Cambridge, who have to live and grow together whether...
...polite weekend guests unwillingly trapped in a family quarrel, they could not choose but hear. As the week wore on, the young Princess fulfilled her royal functions, well-armed in the impassive mask of dignity that is royalty's required uniform. In tiara and strapless pink and white gown, she helped her sister the Queen entertain the visiting President of Portugal by sitting through a performance of Smetana's The Bartered Bride, while a soprano sang to a forbidden lover, "Nothing in the world will ever part us." She snatched moments alone with Peter Townsend, whenever she could...
...competition from American comics. Salad Days, produced by the Bristol Old Vic who should know better, follows a young couple's escapades with flying saucers and a magical piano. Both the plots are thin, music routine, and puns atrocious. ("What shall I wear on a flying saucer?" "A tea gown, of course...
There are a few obvious morals to be derived from this story. The first is that the Cambridge Police should recognize the friction between the uneducated but moral town and the educated gown by not employing non-official inhabitants of the town in the official chastisement of "gownies." The second truth which this tale teaches is that the Cambridge Police should place men who are accustomed to college frivolity on the Garden Street beat. Finally, students are warned that, if they must sport themselves in freakish attire, it would be well to carry along either a bursar's card...