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Eliot and Kirkland swimmers will meet for the Straus Trophy Tuesday afternoon. Although both Houses are still tied for the intramural championship, Eliot has been selected to swim against Yale on Saturday in the Blockhouse...
...graduate of Ohio State University, Buck has worked in Cambridge since 1923, and until his administrative appointment in 1945, he has been a historian, specializing in the South of the Civil War. In his first year at Cambridge, President Lowell selected Buck to be resident tutor in Straus Hall. Buck became a precursor of the sweeping change that was yet to come--institution of House tutorial and Senior Tutors. Later Lowell appointed him librarian in Dunster House, and the future Provost immediately set to work stocking the new Dunster library. It was from his work in Dunster that Buck learned...
Built in 1893 by men who knew the value of that citizenship-Isidor Straus (R. H. Macy & Co.), Jacob Schiff (Kuhn, Loeb & Co.), and other leaders of _New York's Jewish community-the Alliance filled a great gap in the lives of immigrants. There a man could come to learn English, use the library or the gymnasium, attend religious services or smoke a pipe with a Landsmann over a game of checkers. There mothers, still wearing sheitels, could learn the language that their children were picking up quickly in public school. And the kids themselves could come after school...
Chief antagonist of the Board of Directors was Lewis D. Gilbert, who owns stock in 600-odd corporations, including 12 shares in Macy's. Gilbert, questioning just how many of the store's Board of Directors knew about such things as merchandising, forced President Jack I. Straus '21 to admit several of the directors were not familiar with retailing...
...team which fails to field a team for a game automatically loses ten Straus Trophy points...