Word: hering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The guest bows-and soon finds himself in the Genoese velvet Green Room. Just beyond is the spacious, cream-paneled East Room with gold damask draperies and twelve Æsop's Fables in low relief. Here amid more potted palms, the line of march disperses.
Here, for example, are 17 miscellaneous resignations which the President must study, accept or reject. Mr. Forster has already sent the usual form letter acknowledging their receipt. And whom does the President wish to appoint Collector of the Port of New Orleans? Mr. Forster guessed it. Here is the lucky...
Rather cryptically and ominously the Prince added: "This is not the occasion to discuss the unemployment situation. . . . Should such discussion be invited here, I prophesy an all-night sitting in the Mansion House which would not suit everybody present."
The difficulty in raising such specialized forms of life as the "most modest senior" is nothing, however, to that of telling who he is once you have him. Here as nowhere else must Harvard congratulate her traditional rival; powers of selection such as this are scarcely to be found even...
Ample proof of the omniscience proceeding from four years in New Haven is to be found in the confidence with which the Seniors attack such problems as "which living man do you admire most?" But here there develops a weakness in the works, for though the majority comes out stoutly...