Word: proper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some arrangements should be made by House Committees for the entertaining of women guests, at least on weekends, after individual rooms are official closed. Winthrop and Lowell, for example, allow use of one Common Room for such purposes. Admittedly Common Rooms are lacking in "atmosphere" and, in many eases, proper planning within the House would help. Proper planning within the House could avoid conflicts with groups using the rooms for meetings...
Until the College is able to afford a student activities center or a Union with proper entertainment facilities, or until the public and the alumni change their minds about what is moral--an unlikely event--no one will be fully satisfied. The activities center is the long run answer. Until Harvard builds one, present rules must be adjusted...
...Yalies cam to Cambridge in a bilateral deal which bound them to help an unidentified group of Harvard undergraduates paint a crimson H on Harkness tower. In return, the Cantabrigians provided information on time, place, and proper equipment for the Mem Hall attempt...
...verdict gushes too high. Firbank's light and dexterous hand may have "altered the pace of dialogue for the [contemporary] novel" and his work may represent a "startling technical achievement." But the proper place for his silver cobwebs is in, round, and underneath a closed circle of impalpable esthetes...
What shocked Britons most was a statement from the accountants-Cooper Brothers & Co.-that they were "unable to report that in our opinion proper books of accounts have been kept by the corporation." But Sir Leslie Arthur ("Dick") Plummer, the corporation's chairman and Labor's vice president in charge of groundnuts, also had some excuse for this. In the first year (1947-48), the scheme had been run by a subsidiary of the empire-wide business colossus, Unilever. Plummer claimed that when his corporation took over a year ago, the books were already in chaos. This...