Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other speakers included Henry L. Shattuck '01, member of the corporation, who stressed the individual's responsibility to participate actively in local and state government. Previously, John H. Finley '25, Master of Eliot House, discussed the Harvard problem of reconciling conflicting university and college traditions. The Houses, he said, have the main responsibility in developing personal and unifying aspects otherwise neglected at Harvard...
Chief relic now from the south-of-the-border influence of the scholarly House Master Clarence H. Haring '07, are the Argentine cigarettes which he freely dispenses on Monday afternoons when he and his wife extend their hospitality to House members...
...that a well represented committee should be competent to test House opinion on the matter. A limit of three open dances per year for each House is the only restriction imposed by the University while the number of closed dances is unlimited subject to approval by the House Master...
...list of praises must come a word for John Holabird, whose transformation of the evils of Sanders Theater into good should set a target for succeeding generations to aim at from a distance. The use of the memorial Hall transept for the Reims coronation scene was a master stroke of a designer's imagination: with the audience seated in the long hall it became a cathedral even to the acoustics. And that was not the limit of Holabird's invention. His division of the stage into three separate units for the opening scenes would alone have made the staging...
Nestled snugly within the Randolph courtyard is the most colorful Gold Coast tradition, Apthorp House, residence of David M. Little '18, master of Adams and Secretary to the University. The old white frame dwelling imprisoned General Burgoyne and his staff after they were captured at Saratoga in 1777 and later contained a thriving speakeasy during Prohibition