Word: hall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago politics by the "word association" test. Specimen Chicagoans, from steer-stabbers to brokers, were told to blurt out their immediate reactions to the examiner's key words. "Alderman" suggested the professor. "Grafter," quickly replied one citizen. Another said "crook." Another said "big cheese," another, "bay window." "City hall," posed the professor. "Politics . . . graft . . . corruption," came the spontaneous reactions...
Among Harvard men a story is told. One day last year an unobtrusive man was shown into the office of President A. Lawrence Lowell in University Hall. Like a caged lion, the President was pacing back and forth and round and round, hands clasped in back. His visitor seated himself quietly in a corner, holding an umbrella. At length the President emerged from his cogitation: "What can I do for you?" "Have you ever considered the English house system here at Harvard?" asked the unobtrusive man. "Yes . . . too expensive." "How much?" "Oh, about three million dollars to begin...
...Ames competition to be held on Thursday, November 22 and Friday November 23. On the first day, the Chafee and Warren Clubs will oppose each other, while on the second day, the Scott and Bryce Clubs will argue their cases. The magnificent new court-room of Langdell Hall, with a seating capacity of 800, will be inaugurated with these arguments...
This year, more than ever before, the need for bigger and better classroom space has become painfully apparent. During the past week a distinguished visiting professor has been forced to change the meeting place of his course three times, due to the inadequacy of the recitation rooms in Sever Hall. In Harvard Hall there are men sitting on the floor and in the window-sills in one course, while many other courses are reciting in rooms filled far beyond their normal capacity...
...time that some thought be given to the ways and means of providing the college with some new recitation hall. The last five years have seen an enormous amount of money invested in physical additions to the Harvard plant. We have had a new art museum, and a new gymnasium, and new dormitory units are in process of construction. The classroom space provided in the art museum and the Mallinckrodt laboratory was purely incidental to the primary purposes of these buildings, and has done but little to relieve the general situation...