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...ceremony, dozens of first-years and their families approached the south porch of Memorial Church to hobnob with Harvard's top officials. Rudenstine and Knowles patiently shook hands and chatted with all interested parties before walking off together toward Harvard Yard...

Author: By Philip P. Pan, | Title: New Leaders Address Frosh | 9/11/1991 | See Source »

...least -- gather in one place. In a musical subculture so arcane that few even know it exists, this counts as a world-class event: the first East Coast Convention of Cumann na bPiobairi, the national Irish Pipers' Club -- and what is a little discomfort? The novices are eager to hobnob with such superstars as Al Purcell, from Detroit; Bill Ochs, Jerry O'Sullivan and Matt Connolly, out of New York; and Denis Brooks, all the way from Seattle. For the pros, it is a chance to trade techniques, tunes and gossip saved since they last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Philadelphia Piping | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

...another category of evangelists, in the U.S. and elsewhere. In the developing nations where Protestantism shows the most vitality, far more often than not they are humble in social status, travel on foot instead of in limousines and preach in huts rather than crystal cathedrals. While their celebrity counterparts hobnob with the rich and powerful, non-Western evangelists often face harassment or imprisonment for proselytizing, even for importing Bibles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Summons to the Unknowns | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

Frequent contact between students and faculty is what members find most attractive about the Signet. The club is one of the few undergraduate organizations on campus, aside from the Hasty Pudding and the Lampoon, where professors hobnob with students outside the classroom...

Author: By Matthew H. Joseph, | Title: THE SIGNET SOCIETY | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

...Friday-night ritual in Westwood Village, an enclave of movie theaters and trendy shops neighboring the sprawling campus of the University of California, Los Angeles. Teen-agers and college students hang about the bars and ice-cream parlors to gawk and hobnob, while lines of moviegoers curl around the corners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He Just Mowed Them Down: driver causes chaos and death in L.A. | 8/6/1984 | See Source »

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