Word: reuben
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...survey of House Masters yesterday revealed that in general they disapprove of ever abandoning the present system for assigning Freshmen to Houses. Only Reuben A. Brower, Master of Adams House, conceded that making assignments through the use of IBM machines, as done at Yale, might be worthwhile "with a lot of qualifications...
...Reuben A. Brower will teach English 163, "Readings in Modern British and American Poetry" in the fall while David D. Perkins '51, Instructor in English, will offer English 253, "Wordsworth, Arnold and Eliot" in the spring...
...Russia, where caviar cost $1.35 a portion, cognac up to $2.25 a snifter. He wears custom-made suits from London and monogrammed shirts from Paris (though they do nothing for his built-in rumples). Asked his favorite color, Gunther beams: "Smoked salmon-Prunier's, of course, not Reuben's." Nor would Host Gunther dream of serving domestic champagne at his massive parties. For one gala, co-hosted at the Gun-thers' house by Claude Philippe of the Waldorf, liveried footmen carried scrolls to invite the 80 guests...
...around a bulletin board each day for their Peanuts ration. The sparely drawn strip is included as a comment on mid-century mores in a historical textbook published by George Washington University. Peanuts earned its paterfamilias, Minnesota-born Artist Charles Monroe Schulz, the Cartoonists' Society's annual Reuben Award. Last week the editors of Yale's humorous monthly Record twined ivy in young (35) Charles Schulz's laurels by naming him Humorist of the Year...
...Reuben A. Brower, Master of Adams House, called the move a "necessary experiment." He added, "It is somewhat dangerous but we are willing to try it in the face of a temporary need...