Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Your recent news item about itinerant dentists [TIME, Aug. 30] brought to mind a remarkable itinerant dentist whom I ran across a few months ago in Western Australia. John Dunn, now in his late 20s, Harvard Dental School, class of '29, went out to Australia on graduation, had a hard time fighting the Depression in Perth. Then, on pure nerve, he pushed up into the appalling open spaces of Northwestern Australia. Today he is the only dentist in an area stretching 1,000 mi. along the coast of the Indian Ocean and 400 mi. inland-a region the size...
...favorite creation at the recent Schiaparelli winter opening was a black cocktail dress with shortish skirt, black rose-shaped buttons, a high V neck and lips of bright red floss embroidered on the pockets of the short jacket. Mrs. Reginald Fellowes, leader of London's cafe set and onetime friend of the Duke of Windsor, liked it and bought it. So last week did Mrs. Charles Crocker of Manhattan; Mrs. D. J. Sayman of St. Louis; Mrs. Herbert Mavre of Glencoe, Ill.; Mme Alfira de Riglos of Buenos Aires; Mrs. Charles Hanna of Cairo; Mlle Jean Mastbaum of Paris...
...number of candidates over the turnout of the previous Freshman class is particularly encouraging, not only because it shows that more students are availing themselves of the chance to use the University's excellent facilities for play, but also it demonstrates how the game, more than in recent years, has captured the imagination of the undergraduate body...
...house, to which have been invited the proctors--who are expected to excite interest in some form of get-together sport among their charges--and ministers of the various churches in the Square. Moving pictures will be shown, tea served, and acquaintanceship encouraged. Thus the first unofficial move in recent years to lift solitary Freshmen from the pit of despair is about to go into practice. If successful, more power to the charity...
...Foreign Student committee has been very active this summer. The chairman, Charles L. Burwell, '39, has just returned from Europe where he interviewed fifteen of the men coming to Harvard this fall. As a recent innovation this has proved successful. This committee is planning informal dinners at the houses and in the Union, which is part of their normal program to help the student from abroad find his place at Harvard. Following initial effort on the part of the committee valuable and interesting friendships have been formed...