Word: students
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...janitors and scrub-ladies of the educational world last week cleaned floors and windows, dusted desks in high, stale-smelling rooms. Keen was the anticipation of many a college-town merchant. For soon the student army began to appear-some in new, curious, heterogeneous clothing, consciously striving to seem at ease; others older, bigger, surer. To pop-eyed newcomers, college presidents and school heads droned speeches about "intellectual curiosity." "the academic heritage," "The Future." It was the beginning of another School Year...
...were businesslike. Of the men, one caught first attention-a stoutish man in a pincenez, with a broad waistcoat crossed by a gold watch-chain, who spent most of his time standing beside a blackboard. This was Wilbur Cherrier Whitehead, bridge-expert. The people with him were all students in his course for bridge teachers. When he or some other expert was not explaining plays to them, or diagraming special hands, they spent the time playing bridge. At the end of a five-day meeting, the student-teachers were examined by Whitehead's secretary, who is a bridge teacher...
According to the report of John Cross '30, recently elected Assistant Treasurer of the Student Council, the accounts of last year's budget were found to be in good condition, with all the back debts paid up, and a balance of about $500 in the bank, owing, in great part, to the discontinuation of the University Register...
Three sums of $4,000 each will be taken from the grand total: the first to go to Phillips Brooks House; the second to be reserved for class funds; and the third to be used for the Student Council and organized charities. The money for the class funds will be allotted as follows: to the class of 1930, $1,600, of which $1,000 is a loan for the Senior Album, to be repaid, and $600 a fund for entertainments and general expenses. Of the remaining $2,400, $600 each will be given to the classes...
...Student Council keeps for its own overhead and running expenses $700; while the remainder of the $4,000 is for organized charities, and miscellaneous purposes. The Salvation Army is to receive $500, the American Red Cross, $1,000, and the Harvard Band, $750. The allotments for the Cambridge Boy Scouts, the Committee on Friendly Relations among Foreign Students, and the Near East Relief have not yet been decided...