Word: halls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surprise of the afternoon came when the organization presented Miss Florence Gerrish, house mother of Cabot Hall, with an "R" for skill in spectating. Miss Gerrish also has held the annual jacks tournament championship for two years...
...back in 1902, President Eliot surveyed the overcrowded library in Gore Hall and "doubted whether it be wise for a University to undertake to store books by the millions when only a small proportion of the material stored can be in active use." He suggested that dead books could be stored in a much more compact manner in separate quarters. Naturally every professor was horrified by the thought that a book in his department could be considered "dead," so the idea was dropped for 40 years...
This afternoon, solicitors will continue to canvass those who have already signed up. Students may still volunteer by seeing their house captains or by dropping their sign-up blanks in the dining-hall deposit boxes. Volunteering will continue through dinner tonight...
Zecharish Chafee, Jr., Langdell Professor of Law, will discuss "The John L. Lewis Case" at 8 p.m. tonight in the Court Room of Langdell Hall...
...only were passing students delighted with the proceedings, but so were Life and newspaper photographers, the University Hall secretarial staff, and a trained dog who tried to earn himself a screen test before Assistant Director Sid Sidman. To keep the people happy while waiting for the sun, Thayer Hall freshmen offered an impromptu program of amplified Al Jolson songs and Dwight Fiske records...