Word: host
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard has had its share of misguided Freshmen as many chronicles by graduates have delighted in revealing. Owen Wister and the authors of "Little Codfish Cabot" together with a host of others loss recent have detailed the vagaries of Freshman foibles. One of the typical stories told relates the experience of one newly entered student who found himself "rushed by the biggest club in the college", as he wrote his parents. The club it was revealed, was the Harvard Union...
...years an ever graying, ever dwindling host has held annual "encampments" in various sections of the U. S. As surely as August rolled around, so sure ly have the veterans of more than three score battles?and now of three score years?assembled and somehow marched, in spite of old wounds and infirmities...
...late holy war at Dayton, Tenn., gave occasion for a great host of fakirs, professional prophets and pseudo-scientific potboilers to flood the land with cheap literature for and against Evolution. The end of the aftermath is not yet. Even the Bible-sellers have felt the boom and prepared popular editions of that much-feared-for book. But if any new Evolution text for laity should be absolved of the Dayton imprimatur it is the present volume. Mr. Ward, lately a teacher at the Taft School, lives in New Haven, Conn., where he is an imtimate of Professors Woodruff, Keller...
...wooded estate, out from the city. . . .Deer driven through the crackling underbrush. . . A host of pursuers, disappointed because the Prince had begged to be excused...
...week passed, during which all the dinner-giving organizations of Stockholm vied with each other, in setting succulent dishes before the 625 delegates to the Universal Conference on Life and Work (TIME, Aug. 24, 31). Then the American Near East Relief Association played host. For shelter it provided the best hotel in town. For fare, it served rice, prunes, boiled rice...