Word: halle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mayor. A dapper, quick-eyed gentleman in an easy chair at the City Hall-a Manhattanite with sporting instincts not unlike Rothstein's except that his gambling is in votes and publicity-could stand it no longer. Once before, under deadly parallel circumstances, a Mayor of New York had lost caste when a gambler's murderers were brought to justice slowly during his administration.* So Mayor James John Walker called for his Police Commissioner and gave him a certain number of days to get "action...
According to Dean D. L. Edsall, the community life of the hall has increased to great exent not only the social and athletic side of Medical School life, but also, through the contacts made the students with resident instructors and with each other, has increased the intellectual activity, interest in cultural and medical problems...
Sixteen of the younger, unmarried teachers live in the hall, not at all as proctors, but rather as students in more advanced lines of work. These men apply for rooms just as the incipient doctors do; they eat and play and study with the other members of the "house...
...Harvard Union, and various club facilities are provided. Ladies are freely allowed in the rooms from one to six o'clock, the only provision being the notification of the janitor so that he may not confuse them with agents and saleswomen, who are not allowed in the hall. The bringing of guests, men and women, to dinner is encouraged, and several dances are held during the year...
...dormitory holds but 262 of the men in the Medical School, an enlargement of the quarters in the near future is being considered. When this is completed it is hoped to include in the hall the students in the School of Public Health, who come from 30 different countries and also the graduate students, some 30 graduates of medical schools in 15 countries whose fellowships are paid by various endowments...