Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Open House Night, only 20 sophomores were on the class president's list as potential trouble spots. The Committee was active here again, patrolling Prospect Street, wearing white armbands for identification and equipped with walkie-talkies ("Hello, Tommy, this is Phil--do you read me? Over. Jones and Smith just signed in at Terrace. Over. We're down to seven. Over and Out."). Gradually, the list of men "in trouble" was pared down; shortly before the 10 o'clock deadline, everyone was accounted for; "100% was achieved...
...distinction is certainly marked during Bicker, and it probably holds a good deal of truth the rest of the year. The charge of "anti-intellectualism on the Street" is one that finds increasing currency at Princeton. Professor James Ward Smith of the Philosophy Department, in an article for The Daily Princetonian, stated the case for those who reject not the club system but what the club system now does...
...such performers as Paderewski and Actress Ethel Barrymore. Neither Herbert Hoover nor Calvin Coolidge went in for such lighthearted entertainment, although Coolidge once had John Barrymore to dinner before going to the National to see the Great Profile play Hamlet. Both F.D.R. (he liked Lawrence Tibbett, Marian Anderson, Kate Smith and Mickey Mouse, among others) and Truman were major White House impresarios...
...unlikely gimcrack that for years has been the hottest-selling art object in Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost big island, is the small plaster bust (price: $1) of a stern-faced New England schoolmaster who died in 1887. William Smith Clark stayed only eight months on Hokkaido, but the visit, in 1876, was long enough for him to be enshrined by the islanders as something between seer and saint. On leave from his job as president of Massachusetts Agricultural College (now the University of Massachusetts), Clark helped found the school that was to become the outpost island's pride...
...William Smith Clark the ambitious growth would be satisfying; so would the new student union (the first one in Japan) and the faculty-exchange program carried on with the University of Massachusetts. But possibly even more pleasing would be the sight of young Japanese scholars pursuing knowledge with Yankee vigor. When frostbite threatens in a Hokkaido lecture hall-outside temperature sometimes reaches 40° below and that indoors is often only somewhat more temperate-the sufferer rushes outdoors, rubs his ears hard with snow, then bundles right back to resume his notetaking...