Word: interring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winthrop's fagless, hagless, jagless training program paid off yesterday as the Puritan eight took an early lead over Eliot's bulking oarsmen and held on to win by 10 feet in the last of the semifinal inter-house heats. Lowell was third by a length...
...treaty with Britain and Russia to keep Germany and Japan disarmed forever. As a result, Franklin Roosevelt picked him as a delegate to the San Francisco conference which set up U.N. Since then he has been a delegate to the first and second U.N. General Assemblies and to the Inter-American Defense Conference at Rio de Janeiro. Former Secretary of State Byrnes, a friend of Senate days, took him along to the Foreign Ministers conference in Paris and to the Paris peace conference, and he is largely credited with converting Byrnes to his "patience with firmness" policy. By prodding recalcitrants...
...their final session, the delegates to the Inter-American conference rode out of scarred Bogotá to the white-walled home of the first Pan American. A chill Andean drizzle fell as they gathered at the Quinta de Bolivar to sip champagne and then duck by turns into the Liberator's dark dining room to sign their treaties and conventions. As each delegate signed, a band in the patio struck up his national anthem. Halfway through, the electricity faltered, and Uruguay signed by the flickering light of a candelabra...
...valuable proctor is the discreet proctor, who remains wary but unobtrusive. He will preferably sit silently in some advantageous spot, or if he must walk, proceed on egg-shells, like a friendly phantom. He will also refrain from stage whispers with his colleagues. Indeed, the prevalence of inter-proctor communication has raised doubts that the College needs so many of these hirelings. But assuming that all proctors are necessary, it is hardly too much to ask that they be carefully instructed to act like guardian angels, instead of hotel detectives...
Continuing the successful first quarter century of the Club's history, the inter-war period added such familiar names to the roster as Virgil Thomson '22, music critic of the New York Herald-Tribune, Walter Piston '24, recently named Naumberg Professor of Music whose Third Symphony was awarded the Pulitzer Music Prize this week, and G. Wallace Woodworth '24. Ralph Kirkpatrick '31, famed harpsichordist of the duo, Schneider and Kirkpatrick, was a featured performer in the group during his college days...