Word: stan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Upon the Stanford campus women swarm. No co-eds these, but members of that most efficient administrative machine which enables President of Stanford and Secretary of the Interior Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur to stand with such grace with a foot on either side of the continent. The Stan- ford Employment Office and Dining Hall System are chiefed and staffed by women, the Registrar's Office and Library have two men each directing a staff composed almost entirely of women, and in every nook and cranny of Stanford, women secretaries write, type, talk, phone...
...stan of 118 professors from Harvard and other universities of America and Europe will offer a total of more than 175 courses in the 1928 Harvard Summer School. P.P. Chase '99 is in charge of this year's session, which will last for six weeks from July 2 to August...
Headliner last week at the Keith Vaudeville Palace, Manhattan, was Emma Calvé, billed "The Beloved Diva" and "The World's Greatest Carmen," serving on the same bill with such as Stan Kavanagh (Austrian juggler), Naughton & Gold (funny ones), B. A. Rolfe (Mighty Melodist of the Trumpet), Frank Evers & Greta (tightrope dancers...
Reduced to its lowest terms, the action of the book is provided by Nona's love affair with Stan Heuston and Lita's incipient love affair with Dexter Manford. The rest of the characters are so implicitly concerned in one another's actions, each is so much a pillar in the last year of the 19th Century, separate catastrophe would be impossible. Total catastrophe trembles above them like a paper cutter on a thread when Dexter Manford arranges things so that he can, without Jim, have Lita as a guest in his country home. A triviality twists...
Houser (U. S. C.), Gerkin (Cal), Baker (Swarthmore), Hoffman (Stan), Phillips (Cal), Norton (Georgetown...