Word: longings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...goal of the Library is still a long way off, especially in its lack of adequate foreign material. According to one member of the staff, the Baker Library may be said to have passed adolescence and is approaching maturity, but still has a serious task ahead if it is to live up to its present splendid promise...
Ogden Phipps '31, captain of the Harvard University squash team, has accepted an invitation to play in the second annual squash racquets tournament of the Rockaway Hunting Club for the Gold Racquet, at Cedarhurst, Long Island...
...criticism will be heard of the names of the first two Houses. Dunster for Harvard's first president and Lowell for its latest. The names have long been honorably associated with things Cantabrigian. The announcement of the masters-to-be of the third and fourth Houses will also please Harvard men. Robert B. ("Frisky") Merriman '96, and Edward A. Whitney '17, although of different generations, are both members of the faculty who have long taken an advisory part in undergraduate life outside of their professional interests. Boston Herald
With the announcement today the House Plan is for the first time put on a definite basis. Questions for a long time unformulated and floating about in the minds of Harvard men are for the first time answered. Some idea of the physical form which the Houses will take for the first time come to the public notice in the pictures released from University Hall...
...Plan as acceptable as possible to the largest number of people. The point cannot be too strongly emphasized that virtually all the present plans for the operation of the two houses are still in a fluid state. Those in charge are anxious that this flexibility be maintained as long as possible after the Houses are in operation and fully intend to make modifications in these plans as soon as and in whatever direction it seems advisable...