Word: presentable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Douglas Mercer and Philip C. Neal will assist Holdsworth in heading the committee of Juniors which is in charge of escorting guests to their seats and arranging the fetes of the Commencement program. Last year 63 men from the present Senior class held the positions...
Expressing dissatisfaction with the present system of House selection "which denies membership to high ranking men engaged in outside activities and sports," a group of 11 active Yardlings yesterday sent a letter to the Contral Committee on the Houses, seeking admissions on a "merit basis...
...present changes are of particular significance in view of the recent and extended criticisms that have been levelled at the teaching in the Economics Department in "The Progressive." The apparent cause for the movement is the complete lack of opportunity for further appointment after an instructor has proceeded for six or eight years in the University. This condition is verified by the fact that during the next ten years there are only tow permanent appointments open to the younger...
...eighteenth century chamber music which is at its best in the atmosphere of intimacy and informality which these recitals always have. The concert of two piano music and songs at the Longy School tonight promises to be very good, and their Faculty Concert next Tuesday in which they will present Vivaldi's Four Seasons should not be overlooked...
Joyce is constantly jotting down overheard phrases, is especially interested in dialects, Midwestern American, British colonial, newspaper jargon. He speaks Italian as smoothly as English, flawless French, fluent German, knows some dozen other tongues, including outlandish Lapp. At present Joyce is not writing. His wife is trying to get him started on something, because when he is not working he is hard to live with...