Word: halled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University, not College, property, authorization for its use must come from the Corporation office. All schools except the College file such applications through their Dean's offices. Dean Watson has set up a system whereby students must get tentative approval from him first and then go to Massachusetts Hall for final space allotment. This plan, actually established to speed up the process, has caused most of the difficulties; for students who do not carry through correctly often find that by the time they get straightened out Sanders has been assigned to some other organization...
...signing up for rehearsal and performance time can be simplified enough so that the agents for College groups won't get lost before they finish applying. Dean Watson's office should treat the Sanders problem the way other Deans do it: Take the applications and file them with Massachusetts Hall itself, eliminating the extra step by students...
...complete structure or edifice to be improved for a market" at his own expense, and would the town accept it? With Faneuil putting up the cash, how could Boston refuse? It took two years to build the structure--which not only had market facilities, but a large meeting hall on the second floor--and when it was finished, the town voted "that in testimony of the town's gratitude to the said Peter Faneuil, Esq., . . . the hall over the market place be named Faneuil Hall...
...Hall, as the good Yankees call it, burned in 1761. Peter Faneuil couldn't help rebuild it--he had been dead for 18 years--so the town raised money with a lottery. "Faneuil Hall Lottery Tickets" sold slowly, but eventually enough was raised to rebuild the market...
...Faneuil Hall was used by the British as a storehouse and theater. During one performance an official came out on the stage and announced that the "Yankees are attacking Bunker Hill." The audience thought it was part of the show and cheered lustily, but sobered considerably when they found it wasn...