Word: sittings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roslyn, a small suburban village on Long Island's north shore, live estate owners, commuters and many Polish, Italian and Negro families whose breadwinners work on the estates. In Roslyn's schools children from all these groups sit side by side. Ten years ago these schools began to go "progressive." Since tall, athletic Superintendent Frederick R. Wegner (a onetime Cornell baseball player) arrived four years ago, they have won fame outside Roslyn. But progressive education, though less costly in Roslyn than in some other towns, is more expensive than old-fashioned schooling and a year ago Roslyn taxpayers...
...critics by clowning only enough to please his more lighthearted fans, Baer also surprised the experts with his shrewd tactics: he repeatedly maneuvered Farr towards his own corner so that at a round's end Farr would lose precious seconds of rest walking across the ring to sit down...
With this feeling in mind, the class of 1913 reunion committees are planning a less strenuous program with plenty of time every day to sit around and talk for a while. Classmates and their families will dine, dance, watch a cabaret show the first night, under the elms in the Yard if the night is clear...
...three years I have had as my constant companion a faithful and pious friend, one Oscar Optimesque, who used to sit on the platform while I pointed him out as an example of the ravages of alcohol. Unfortunately, during the past summer, poor Oscar passed to his doom. I wonder if you could help me find some Harvard student to accompany me on my spring tour to replace poor Oscar, as I have heard on good information that Harvard students are possessed with the devil of drink. Hopefully yours, Rev. Jonah M. Wilde...
Conference this year will be held in New Haven on Friday and Saturday, April 22 and 23. Students who wish to sit at one of the tables should send a postcard to John T. McCutcheon, Jr., The Harvard CRIMSON, 14 Plympton Street, giving their telephone numbers if they can be reached in that way, their address, and the table they wish to sit...