Word: master
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Countless generations of fox hunting folk have established a crystalized vernacular. "A huntsman" is a hunt servant who "hunts hounds"; "whippers-in" are servants who keep hounds in place; "the M. F. H." (Master of Fox Hounds) is social head of the hunt, and disciplinary leader of "the field"; other riders are "fox hunters" or "riders-to-hounds"; "hunter," used singly, refers to a jumping horse used for following hounds...
...evening dinner in the Harvard Union at which Professor R. P. Boas '17 of Mount Holyoke College will be toast-master, the speakers will be Mrs. Grace Hazard Conkling of Smith College, who will talk on "Imagination In and Out of School", Professor S. F. Damon '14 of Brown University, who will discuss "Unknown American Literature", and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana '12, who will discuss some phase of his grandfather's work...
...social assistant is another man named Hoover. In Harrison's time, this man, Irwin Hood Hoover, came to the White House as plain "Ike" Hoover, a tall, long-nosed electrician to superintend a wiring job. He stayed on and on until he became major domo, chief usher and master of White House protocol. He has a little office off the main foyer, to the right as you enter. Crisply grey of hair, vigorous of demeanor, it is he who inspects all callers, who engineers all receptions, arranges the First Lady's teas, sends the White House motor hither...
...Biltmore. Smaller than the United but considerably more metropolitan is the Bowman-Biltmore chain. Manhattan units are the Commodore, Belmont and Biltmore. Extra-Manhattan units include the Westchester Biltmore, the Sevilla of Havana, the Miami Biltmore in Florida. Head of Bowman-Biltmore is John McEntee Bowman, lover of horses, master of showmanship...
...advantages of living in the Yard and the dubious contagion of its past and present associations. The intangible benefit derived would certainly be more profitable to the susceptible Freshman than to the blase Senior. With most of the upperclassmen separated from the College office proper by an intermediary House master, the Freshman class will be the almost important group directly under University Hall supervision. This proximity of the first year class further enhances a distribution plan whose guiding impulse is practically...