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Died. Maximilian Agassiz, 77, swank grandson of the famed 19th-Century naturalist Louis Agassiz and president of both Newport's Reading Room (stag) and Clambake Club (coed); after a ten-year illness; in Newport, R.I. His father, Harvard Savant Alexander Agassiz, helped develop Calumet & Hecla copper mines, left him a fortune out of which he paid many a newsboy's way through college...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 4, 1943 | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

...admission, including tax, will be $1.75 per couple, $1.25 stag, the band will be announced at the beginning of next week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Committee Will Sponsor Dance October '9 | 9/17/1943 | See Source »

...almost uniformly dull, but they do give parties. If you get invited to the Brattle Hall dances or the Eliot Hall dances, go; if the war hasn't put a halt to parties by next year, you'll get to know "the right girls" and be eligible for the stag lines...

Author: By L. ESORIT Gaulois, | Title: Social Life Vital Part of Students' Initiation Into "The Fellowship of Educated Men" | 7/1/1943 | See Source »

...three days. So tomorrow night, after having given ourselves this lecture, we're laking time off to attend the dance for Midshipmen at the liasty Pudding Club at 2000. We understand that it's just fine to bring along a wife or sweetheart, but we're going stag because we understand that Wellesley will be well represented...

Author: By Alem Dworkin, | Title: MIDSHIPMEN | 6/4/1943 | See Source »

...Elisabet used her beauty to shoehorn her way into art classes (strictly stag, up to then) and to blast men's balance. Perhaps her greatest conquest was Germany's ace misogynist, atrabilious old Arthur Schopenhauer. By the time she had worked on him a week he was babbling utter fatuities. "By God," he gloated, "I almost feel like a married man!" When Elisabet reminded him that, once his polysyllabic frock coat was stripped off, his animadversions against women were those of any Junker or farm hand, all he could manage was to blame it on his mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Deep in the Heart | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

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