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...That a graduate student be placed in charge of the building in return for his board and room thus saving the expense of a full time steward and providing an agency for integrating the varied social, educational, and athletic activities of the group...
Though Andrew Ellicott Douglass is a capable astronomer and director of the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory, he is most widely renowned for his pioneer work on the growth of tree rings. More than three decades ago Dr. Douglass had a great hunch and started examining the rings on yellow pines. By the time he had made 10,000 meticulous measurements and compared them with weather records he had verified what he suspected from the first-that the thickness of each year's growth ring is proportional to the amount of rainfall that year. It was clear...
This onslaught left the House of Lords gaping and gasping. "I had nothing to do with drafting the obnoxious clause," bleated the Master of the Rolls, Baron Hanworth of Hanworth, onetime High Steward of Stratford-on-Avon and President of the Magna Charta Society...
...deck of the Queen of Bermuda, three hours out of Hamilton bound" for Manhattan, a husky youngster in knee breeches stepped bravely up to a steward. "My name is Wainwright," said he. "I'm a stowaway, sir, and I'd like some supper." No penniless adventurer was Carroll Livingston Wainwright Jr., 8, but a scion of Manhattan's socialite Livingstons, de Peysters, Wainwrights, great-grandson of Jay Gould, lineal descendant of Peter Stuyvesant. Month ago his mother, divorced from his father, fetched Carroll to Bermuda to live with her and her new husband, Sir Hector Macneal. Last week Carroll walked...
...past, a number of systems have been tried out. Originally the Varsity Club had its own separate organization and steward for the eating arrangements. Three years ago, however, it was brought under the control of the union, and has been run as a department of the Union since that time. During 1933 the training tables were distributed for a few weeks among the Houses, but the system proved unsatisfactory and was shortly discontinued...