Word: hostings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Forty famed engineers gathered at the White House luncheon table. After the meal they awarded to their host, President Hoover, the John Fritz gold medal, highest honor of the American Engineering Societies?civil, mining & metallurgical, mechanical, electrical...
...situation in regard to the H. A. A. surplus has not been much clarified by the recent statement from University Hall that the Corporation has "no intention of acquiring a ten million dollar endowment fund for the support of athletics." Out of a host of possibilities one is withdrawn. The present surplus may be allowed to accumulate to an indefinite size and for no purpose at all as far as one can tell from the Delphic utterance of the authorities...
...foreign-born and mostly French or French-Canadian. Of Worcester's four daily newspapers, one, l'Opinion Publique, is printed in French. When ce brave Monsieur Claudel arrived in Worcester, he found 30,000 cheering citizens waiting for him. Assumption College was M. Claudel's chief host, but Assumption College under the Massachusetts laws can only give a B. A. degree. An ambassador should certainly be honored with not less than an LL.D. So Clark University, which is also in Worcester, was glad to help Assumption, give the degree, share the day's festivities.* Assumption College...
...concept of the Civil War does not startle. He employs no impelling format such as Stephen Vincent Benet's in John Brown's Body. In his graceful manner he merely fashions what his publishers are pleased to call belles lettres. In spite of this he commands a host of readers. Sensitive to nuances of a bygone age, he distills the essence of proverbial Southern romance, imprisons it in luxuriant prose: "The deep South, like a conservatory, was sweet with flowers. The isolated burial grounds, approached by avenues of cedars, and shaded with willows and live oaks and linden...
Much has been said for and against enterprises seeking an idealized brotherhood of nations. But, if it is possible for the host engaged in this form of endeavor to shake off the patronizing sentimentality that at present casts an altogether too holy shadow over such efforts, the underlying economic and political significances may be found to be of some import. The present organization, founded on a sound mechanical basis, has at least a greater opportunity than the confusedly related bodies that surround it, to arrive at a conclusion worthy of the attempt...