Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first of the University teas for the year will be held this afternoon from 4 to 6 o'clock in the Parlor of Phillips Brooks House. The object of the teas is to provide an opportunity for students to meet one another informally, and to bring them into closer relations with the officers of the University and their families, particularly with those professors whom they do not meet in the classroom. As in former years, the management of the teas is in the hands of a permanent executive committee made up of certain members of the Faculty and their wives...
...Olmsted, headmaster of Pomfret School, will speak before the Christian Association in the parlor of Phillips Brooks House this evening at 7 o'clock. The meeting will be open to all members of the University, and graduates of Pomfret are especially invited to be present...
...gaudy American flies; but the discovery has not chastened his adjectives. The propensity to fine phrases is the besetting temptation of many college writers--not the exuberance of fancy which is attributed to youth, but the exuberance of dictionary which makes some fashionable authors intolerable. There is one parlor story, "Cupid's Ladder," by Mr. W. C. Greene, which leaves the hero proposing to the wrong sister, but does not inspire in us any curiosity to know what came of it. We are curious, however, to know why he four times addresses the lady as "Madamoiselle." Spelling is, I fear...
...weekly class conducted by Dean Hodges, on the life of Christ, will meet this evening in the Parlor of Brooks House, at 6.30 o'clock...
...Alfred E. Stearns, principal of Phillips Andover Academy, will speak in the Parlor of Phillips Brooks House this evening at 7 o'clock. His subject will be "Personal Responsibility in College Life." All Andover men in the University are especially invited to attend...