Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...existence of clubs which serve one meal a day. Such organizations have a successful prototype in the Metropolitan lunch clubs, and would perform a valuable service in bringing men of different Houses together several times a week. A revision of the club system in this direction would retain most of the real advantages of the present system and do away with the isolated clique tendency which finds its fullest and worst development in so many other American Colleges...
...apparent at first sight, has been a contributing cause to the destruction of class solidity and in its way will be an invaluable aid to the success of the new experiment. If, without the express wish of the College authorities, men have found it convenient and satisfactory to retain their rooms for three years, this feature, an essential detail in the new scheme, augurs well for the success of the whole system...
...social aspects of the House idea. The engineering students are too small in number to form an adequate group for themselves, all the more so since they have but a single scholastic aim. They are not yet graduate students. It is only just and reasonable to allow them to retain at least some of the advantages of college life...
...comes early in the season. Throughout the first term in rowing and until the middle of November in rugby the undergraduate officers of the respective groups take charge of the entire work of training their men. And even after the end of their term as instructors the various captains retain an important voice in the selection of the teams. The coaching, however, during the period of intensive preparation for the Oxford contests is done by several old Blues (the equivalent of Harvard "H" men), who come up to Cambridge for a month or two each year for this purpose...
President Madden will retain his Deanship at New York University while he directs the fortunes of the Institute. He will see that each Alexander Hamilton applicant receives his 24 textbooks, his monthly "lecture," reading directions, business reports. Besides the two-year course, President Madden will direct three new 16-month courses in production, marketing, finance...