Word: halls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Calvin Coolidge had occasion to sleep in its soft beds, the Hamilton had 3,800 members. But Chicago Republicanism struck hard times two full years before the New Deal, when the late Anton J. Cermak swept clownish Republican Mayor William Hale (''Big Bill") Thompson out of City Hall. Membership dropped from 2,300 in 1930 to less than 1,000 in 1935. That year, owing $215,000 in back taxes and penalties and $86,666 back rent on its site to the estate of Supreme Court Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller, the Hamilton filed a petition to reorganize...
...Dudley Hall, champion of the House touch football league, will take on the Yale winning sextet, Timothy Dwight college, is a tag football game on Soldiers Field at 10 o'clock this morning...
Interviewed yesterday in a hall bedroom off Milk Street Dr. John T. Smoke-Stack said that Harvard would win or Yale would. "But you reds will have to watch Frank," he added. The following in the text of the interview with the cliche expert...
...Lecture Hall is a problem not only in its name, for many, many students have pondered over the questions: "Just when is new old?" but it offers its architectural symmetry(?) as an obstacle to the earnest undergraduate. Approaching the west basement stairway from the corner where traffic is to be dredged, the student, in a hurry of course, finds two routes possible in order to get to the stairway...
There is an imaginary, though not unlikely situation to be drawn: a student is about to take his last final exam in New Lecture Hall basement. If he fails the exam, he will flunk out. Cramming to the last minute, he finds, as he approaches the stairway, that he has but 12 seconds left to get into the examination on time...