Word: naming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will be over-Anglicized; and they are definitely of a sort to restrain the development of the close relationship of student and tutor that is part of the House Plan. In Lowell House, the tutor's table is to be a high table in position as well as in name, for it will be located on a platform raised above the rest of the dining room. Thus a barrier is created which, though small, will make less attractive the opportunity for students to dine at the tutors' table, and will probably diminish the number of those...
Another factor in the situation is the location of the common rooms in Lowell House. The Tutors' Room will be behind the high table, and at a considerable distance from the Students' Room. Again, name and position are not considerations of great importance; yet, when contrasted with Dunster House, in which the corresponding rooms are adjacent, and will be called simply "Large" and "Small" common rooms, Lowell House seems to be assuming a needlessly reserved attitude...
Sirs: You have been making a lot of printers' errors -the Greeks have the real lowdown on how to spell American names to produce the right pronunciation: ΦΟΖ ΜΟŤΒΙΤΟΝ ΝΙΟŤΣ -Fox Movietone News ΚΟΛΝΤΟŤÏΝ -The last name of Mr. Samuel Goldwyn ΜΠΙΛΛŤ ΝΤΟΒ -Billie Dove ΑΛ ΤΖΟΛΣΟΝ -Al Jolson...
...President Hoover last week knocked the first word from Patrick Jay Hurley's title of Assistant Secretary of War. On the same day the President asked Mr. Hurley to change the name of Fort Russell at Cheyenne, Wyo., to Fort Warren as a ''fine tribute" to the late Senator Francis Emroy Warren of Wyoming...
...Marriage Playground", movie adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel of the game name, Paramount has assembled such a host of stars and near-stars that oven though the theme of the picture revolves around the constant marital bickerings of a rich and sophisticated couple the production can be easily classed among the list of better talkies. Mary Brian, Kay, Francis, Frederick March, Huntley Gordon and Lilian Tashman, not to forget five rampant little children,- all lend their personalities to the show to lift it from the rank of just ordinary movies. The youthful Miss Brian and Mr. March have...