Word: hostings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...higher education. She has failed at times to display the enthusiasm commonly exhibited elsewhere is receiving visiting teams; the premature refusal on the part of the Student Council to sponsor the conference might also have been interpreted as evidence of coldness. By fostering friendly intercourse between "courteous host and all-approving guest" --to use Byron's words--, Harvard will help to dispel any illusions the country at large may entertain as to her supposedly unfriendly attitude...
...Harvard Liberal Club will serve as host at a conference on April 2 and 3 of student liberal clubs of colleges from all parts of the country, if plans of the organizing committee on a student conference work out. The committee, consisting of representatives of six men's colleges and Barnard and Radcliffe, have sent letters of invitation and explanation to the colleges through 250 undergraduates or organizations to participate in the organizing convention...
Just what happened to the Assyrian host has not been known. The record brought back by the American scholar is not yet completely translated. But the more announcement of the discovery is very interesting and whets the appetite anew for the kind of research in which American universities were engaging enthusiastically when the war interrupted it. To Chicago also will go a quantity of materials uncovered by Dr. Breasted in Egypt. The whole story of the finding and deciphering of these ancient records, the Egyptian hieroglyphics, the Assyrian cuneifornt, and other difficult inscriptions, is one of the fascinating tales...
...excellent for that very reason is the acting of Hardinge Scholle in the part of Frondeville. Coming in every act and almost every scene with by far the longest part he is what might well be called the back-bone of the play. His part is that of host at his country chateau where the scene of the play is laid while most of the action of the play is executed by the rest of the cast...
...best host is one who creates an atmosphere in which all his guests will want to join. Is there any reason why the Harvard side of the stadium should show a silent indifference to its opponents, a sort of cold superiority to the presence of smaller colleges? Why save for the Princeton and Yale games the exhibition of enthusiasm and fine sportsmanship which Harvard can and has shown? So far the host in the stadium has done too little to create an atmosphere which will make those who "boo" feel decidedly out of place. We expect the team...