Word: roofed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...line-up: HARVARD YALE Bacon, Angier, l.w. r.w. L. Foster, Reid Buntin, Snelling, l.c. r.c. Shiras Bigelow, r.c. l.c. Bulkley Emmens, Baker, r.w. l.w., Griscom, Reid Owen, c.p. c.p. Carson Humphrey, p. p. Yan Ingen, Griscom Holmes, g. s. Roof, Diefendorf...
...real social unit of Freshman life is not the class, but the dormitory. After living together under a common roof for five or six months, men have formed a pretty fair estimate of each other. Why not take advantage of this by investing the governing power in a body which will by representative of the dormitories? Let the Student Council, instead of nominating usual class officers, nominate men from each of the three halls for members of a Freshman interdormitory council. Each hall would elect a fixed number from its nominees. After organization, this body would select a president, vice...
...conducive to the safety of the hundreds who make use of these recitations halls each day. Nor does the absence of adequate fire-escapes improve conditions. True, Sever boasts a well hidden system of chain ladders as antiquated as they are inefficient, and Harvard has its vines and roof-balcony; but the only effective work which these appurtenances can accomplish is to cause the imprisoned undergraduate to spend valuable lecture hours in wondering whether it would be better in case of fire, to trust to the firemen or slide down a rain pipe...
...respective Angles. A merry satire on the Twentieth Century child, who in the sophistication of his or her ten or twelve years of age plays the races, shoots craps and drinks cocktails, is offered in "The Children's Hour in a Modern Nursery." "Marriage a la Mode," "The Roof Tops of New York," and "Keystone Beach" are the other pocket comedies, which afford the principals plenty of chances to gain the hearty approval of the audience. The last-named has a most realistic movie "chase" of hero, heroine, villain, comedians and bathing girls, the effect of an actual movie being...
...representatives withdrawn from the Reparations Commission. But two factors at least will have force in determining the speed and degree of America's entry into full cooperation with the people of Europe. One is the new President's choice of a Cabinet, whether for example, he invites men like Roof. Hoover and Taff to be his Ministers or prefers pledged isolationists like Senators Borah and Johnson. London Daily News...