Word: roome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...purpose of a House dinner is not to stimulate artificially that mystical thing, "House spirit," but rather to provide a weekly occasion when tutors, their associates, and several favored students can join for a few hours of dinner and common room talk. To the six or seven undergraduates invited it gives the opportunity of becoming better acquainted with their superiors, of participating in stimulating discussion of an academic sort. Conceived as such, the dinner is another fine tool for the machine of liberal education. Therefore the present obstacle to its application and extension should be removed by eliminating the restriction...
...MacLaurin are among the 32 authorities invited to meet with 30 undergraduate delegates in the second current social science congress the Guardian has called. Although the conference will not begin officially until tomorrow morning, a preliminary meeting of undergraduate delegates will be held in Winthrop House Senior Common Room tonight...
...suggest that a series of evening lectures be given by a capable man who is anxious to do the work. In these lectures he will discuss the effects of sleep or exercise on study methods of learning words for a language, effects of room ventilation on efficiency, and effects of street noise and music on concentration. He will discuss the relative merits of learning different subjects by sight, sound, or touch. He will tell you what he can about the psychology of learning. Yours truly, F. B. Riggs...
...much for the gift of a convenient room, for the generous loan, or even for the fact that they have made possible a graduate dining hall, that the University deserves the highest praise. Rather it is because they have recognized and rewarded the students whose courage and perseverance so fully deserved success. Harvard men with similar ideas and the will to succeed will be grateful for the precedent thus established...
Jaakko calls for some slight revision of the topography of the room it is played in. This consists of piling all the furniture, radio, rugs, and room-mates in one isolated corner of the room, leaving ample space for the rest of the boys to romp. The pastime is reported to have derived its name from the sound a contestant makes when his midriff is mistaken for the tennis ball...