Word: host
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Phillips Brooks House was built with funds freely contributed by a host of friends and admirers of Phillips Brooks. It was dedicated to his memory in 1900, to "Piety, Charity, Hospitality." Bearing out the ideas of its founders, it has become the center for the voluntary religious and philanthropic activities of the University, and takes a leading part in the reception and welcoming of new students and foreign students. In addition, it places itself at the service of any and all students and groups of students in the University, either as a place for meetings or for quiet thought...
...Harvard Handbook is sent. This Handbook is drawn up each year by a Student Business Board and about 2500 copies printed. It contains information on all extra-curricular activities of the University; schedules and important dates in the current college year, Harvard songs, a man of Cambridge and a host of other things of interest to the new student. Copies that are not sent to Freshmen are given to any new men in the University regardless of their department. But the Handbook cannot answer all the problems that confront the stranger in Cambridge for the first time, and to this...
...from far away New Mexico, comes rumor that The King's Henchman is completed, is Miss Millay's greatest achievement. According to her host-companion Poet Arthur Ficke, "it begins on a high heroic plane and mounts steadily in dramatic interest. It is mag-nificent." It sings of an English King who despatched his bosom friend, centuries ago, to seek out the Thane of Devon, to bring back word whether the Thane's daughter is really as fair as tradition would have her. On All Hallows' Eve the ambassador beholds the beauty stealing timidly over...
...used in the palace of one of the Safidian monarchs and was later presented to Peter the Great of Russia. In 1698, Peter, wishing to express his appreciation of the hospitality of Leopold I, Emperor of Austria, to whom he had paid a visit presented it to his host, and for many years it hung on the walls of the great staircase of the Imperial Palace at Schorbrunn. It was recently sold in London to an American purchaser...
...Their host, red-headed Chancellor Churchill of the British Exchequer, passed the crumpets while Mrs. Churchill poured...