Word: host
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Cornell Club of New England, which will act as the host of the Cornell team in Boston next week, has arranged for a Cornell smoker at the Copley-Plaza tomorrow night. Invitations have been issued to all Cornell alumni clubs in New England. The smoker will be mainly an athletic rally, and the speakers will be prominent athletes and athletic officials. Among the speakers will be: E. J. Savage, of New Haven, a prominent Cornell crew man; Coach Dr. "Al" Sharpe, of the football team; assistant coaches Roy Van Orwan and Dan Reed; Arthur J. Baldwin, of New York City...
Tonight the Union will be the host of the Freshmen when it will give the first smoker to the Class of 1920. An elaborate program has been arranged and the living room will be given over to the class at 8.15 o'clock...
...Chicago. Here they find their relation to each other rapidly and fatally changing. To the quiet, religious young girl Chicago is a brutal nightmare; to the coarser-grained young man it is gloriously American, "the voice of the great old century we live in." To her his friends, their host and hostess, are vulgar and almost disgusting; to him they are fascinatingly alive. She breaks the engagement, but "puts a good face on it" till after dinner. America doesn't "pass by": it stays and does its deadly work...
...cheap, mechanical, and rapid-process work, for purposes of reproduction, there is little demand on the part of publishers of books and magazines for the kind of personal interpretation in black and white, which a generation and more ago called into being Kingsley, King, Church, Kruel, and a host of others whose names were then household words. To the rising generation the very names of those honorable artists and craftsmen are almost unknown. The once flourishing school of American wood-engravers has virtually dwindled to two: Timothy Cole and Henry Wolf, whose art is called into service by only...
...difficult to duplicate in any other college activity. Contact with big-business interests in Boston and New York is constant by necessity. There is also much valuable knowledge of the financing and distribution of the publication to be gained. Perhaps the greatest asset the candidate acquires is a host of business acquaintances who may well prove of value in later years. The extra business editor from 1918 is a necessary result of the enlargement and reorganization of the business staff to meet the demands of the new quarters. Changes have minimized the individual work of each candidate, and each...