Word: knowes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House Plan. It is easy to see what has caused the disappearance of this subject from the newspapers, but the advent of Mr. Harkness' gift is no excuse for this obscurity. As potential alumni and present personnel of Harvard, it would seem that the undergraduates are entitled to know just what is being done in this matter...
...ground for predicting either as a result of the Harvard houses or of any other educational conditions about which I know that the good American small colleges will disappear." Thus Professor Chester Noyes Greenough '98, who will be master of one of the new houses, commented upon the recent report of Dr. B. I. Bell, warden of St. Stephen's College, who predicted the "eventual abandonment of the most firmly intrenched small colleges...
...Tiger, whom I used to know before the break in relations severed our old friendship, supported two aunts and a grandmother by parlaying his bets against Harvard. It seems to me a tragic thing that these three fine old ladies must now go hungry since the source of their income has been cut off. And the worst of it is that their ordeal is imposed for a matter of petty pride. Princeton, as I understand it, felt that Harvard was too high hat. Whether or not this complaint is well founded makes very little difference. It is never necessary...
...McAlpine, only after being warmed and fed, explained that they were the Canadian exploring party who were lost with their two seaplanes two months ago in a snowstorm over Queen Maud Sea. Out of fuel, they alighted on the water and dragged their planes to shore. They did not know that they were only 40 miles from the Fort St. James. Even had they known, they could not have crossed the water. After long delay the winter freeze arrived. Then came Eskimos who guided them over the jagged ice to hospitality. Colonel McAlpine had lost...
...want to give up Third Avenue, but I want to get Park. I believe the people on both streets have much in common and one thing is a taste for decency. The canons of journalism I learned from Herbert Bayard Swope are the only ones I know...