Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first of August this year the office of Registrar Sargent Kennedy began making sure that Scandinavian 50 would have a roof over its head. On September 30th, when the last study card has been filed and the last irate professor has been moved to a big enough lecture room so that all his unexpectedly large group of admirerers can revel in his Ciceronian delivery, the job of assigning classrooms will be done--until the spring term...
Last year's Class of '55 was the first to achieve Registrar Sargent Kennedy's post-war ideal class size of 1100 men. The present freshman class is the largest since 1948, when 1300 crowded Memorial Hall on registration...
Gabrialson then proposed Honorary Vice President of the Convention, a nobler variant of Assistant Honorary Sargent-At-Arms which was handed out to one man in every delegation. This had no more appeal than his earlier attempt, and another boxing match began. The shouting and swinging lasted until Gabrialson made yet another try, Assistant Honorary Vice-President of the Convention. Both sides rose in noizy protest at that point, for it seems that titles carry honor in inverse proportion to length, and neither side was satisfied. During the melee that followed, someone yelled that Blenes was a disbarred lawyer...
...Drapers moved to London, where Victorianism was deeply buried under the lush Edwardian bloom. Muriel set about creating a salon to rival Mabel Dodge's villa in Florence. To the Draper home at 19A Edith Grove came such notables as Painter John Singer Sargent, Writers Norman Douglas, Gertrude Stein and Henry James. The great preoccupation at 19A Edith Grove was music, some of it provided by husband Paul, more of it by Cellist Pablo Casals. Pianist Artur Rubinstein or Singer Feodor Chaliapin. Beginning late in the evening, the music often lasted till morning, when everyone would adjourn...
...second question is parliamentary. While retaining faculty members, the eight Senior Tutors and Registrar Sargent Kennedy will be added to the Administrative Board. Working on the theory that the Senior Tutor's responsibility is to the Houses and the Administrative Board's to the University some have suggested that the Burr Tutors should play advocate and plead his housemaster's case before the Board who would then act as judges...