Word: quete
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...schools]," said he in a speech in Boston, "serves and helps to maintain group cleavages." Last week another topflight Ivy Leaguer took an uncompromising position on the other side of the question. As things are going now, said Princeton's President Harold Dodds at a Loomis School ban quet, a single school system would be a national calamity. One reason: because the public-school system is not doing a good enough...
...every Friday afternoon, carrying on Cardinal Richelieu's instructions to keep the French language pure, they had finished their revision of the As for the ninth edition of the French dictionary, were about to add a new word to the Bs. They agreed that "béquet" ("Printing term. Word or sentence added to correct text.") is now an acceptable French word. Their decision was sent on to the full, 40-man academy, which in secret session approved...
...Governor General of Canada, in the red robe of Oxford; U.N. Delegate Warren Austin (getting his third degree in three days) ; Eugene Cardinal Tisserant of the Vatican in his cardinal's red; Poet T. S. Eliot; and Yale's President Charles Seymour (who reminded a Princeton ban quet audience that their university had been founded by seven Yalemen and one Harvardman). And among the scholars in their academic robes were the uniformed General Eisenhower and Admirals Leahy and Nimitz. The Marine Band burst into Hail to the Chief. Escorted by Princeton's President Harold W. Dodds...
Four newly-elected officers assumed leadership of the University Band Club last night at the musicians' annual after quet in the Harvard Club of Boston, after hearing guest speakers Henry Lamar, Cleo O'Donnell '44, and Robert B. Watson '37, associate dean of the College and honoring Malcolm H. Holmes '28, Band conductor...
...days he would build a bonfire in front of the Cardinal dugout, wrap himself in a blanket, do an Indian war dance. One night, out of ennui in a Philadelphia hotel, he and two teammates, dressed in painters' overalls, dragged ladders and paint cans into a crowded ban quet hall, began to redecorate the walls...