Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Messiah. A painting of Dr. Townsend stood last week at the head of the stairway to the Stevens' Grand Ballroom and pictures of him sold fast at 50? apiece. With the pleasant-faced little woman who was a widow with seven children when he married her, the gaunt, grey, gentle one-time country doctor moved among his followers receiving the reverence accorded an authentic Messiah. He it was who first had the gleam which promised to give old people ease, young people jobs, drive poverty from the land forever. Since early last summer he and Mrs. Townsend traveling mostly...
Classic Japanese heroes are the famed Forty Seven Ronin who perished centuries ago but live in Japanese brains today as examples of furtive, desperate, suicidal valor. Last week the Chinese military commander of Hopei Province, General Shang Chen, charged that "modern Japanese ronin" are sneaking about in his province stirring up Chinese farmers to revolt...
...White 2L, graduate secretary of the Center. Inasmuch as this is the initial year that the Center has been in existence, it was decided by White, and Reginald H. Phelps 5G, Assistant Secretary, to appoint the chairman and two members of the house committee, which is to consist of seven members, and to hold elections for the four vacant positions...
Leverett House will hold its first dance of the season to the music of Frank McGinley and his orchestra, whose melodies have been heard at many club functions about Harvard Square. Formal dinner will commence at seven o'clock, with dancing from nine until midnight. At the dinner both interhouse and interhouse guest slips may be signed by visitors from other Houses. Harold E. Jahn '36, Chairman of the Dance Committee, announced that the patronesses will include Mrs. Benjamin F. Wright, Jr., Mrs. Theodore Morison, and Mrs. Merle Fainsod. The ushers are: Harold E. Jahn '36, Albert Harkness...
...siren shrank swiftly into the distance, like the airport falling away from an airplane. Above his head things grew cloudy, and he heard a voice, saying, "Not every one knows it, but at Harvard the students live in seven beautiful houses. They cost Mr. Harkness twelve million dollars. Twelve million dollars is a lot of money. In England twelve million pounds is even more money. Mr. Harkness's ancestors ran around in leopard loin-cloths, hunting wild boars for supper, and made fire to cook by rubbing two sticks together. These ancestors never knew what twelve million dollars looked like...