Word: hostings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...traditions must rest. Those who have never seen the structure will think of it always by its name, from which they will create their own impressions. Those who know it well will make the letters above the doorway stand for a multitude of feelings, call to mind a host of memories...
...President Coolidge at dinner at the home of Representative Allen T. Treadway of Massachusetts did not eat much. The host asked whether he would like anything else...
...wist not that his face shone. . . ."It was the gentle Josiah Royce, who once said musingly: 'I should like some time to feel as good as Briggs really is, "and therein he voiced the sentiment of all men who have come to know Briggs. And what a host they are." Harvard men, here and there, read Mr. Everett's lament in the press, read also the statement of Dean Briggs-"I have been teaching long enough." Pursing their lips, they declared that the Dean's statement, for all its simplicity, was disingenuous."Trouble with Lowell...
...certain Turkish territories. They revolted, Practically the same offer was made to the people of Mesopotamia--what have they now? Almost 100,000 British in their country. We pity them. The same thing happened to the Syrians. Instead of the promised liberty and so forth, they have a host of Frenchmen. It is Lloyd George's imperialistic policies that are responsible for much of the blood that was shed. It was he who was the great massacrer...
...early as the seventeenth century one Samuel Gibson had won the general esteem by sponsoring certain midnight parties at his dwelling to which students brought sundry turkeys, geese and other fowls from the neighbors' hen houses to be cooked. More than once the Overseers "sollemnly cautioned" the convivial host "of entertaining any of the students in his house, frequenting the Colledges, or drawing them otherwise into his company." All to no avail. The merry Samuel remained the center of extracurriculum activities until his death...