Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...definitely announced that the President and Mrs. Coolidge would summer at White Pine Camp, property of Irwin R. Kirkwood, publisher of the Kansas City Star. It is a 60-acre camp on Osgood Lake (one of the St. Regis group). The cabin for the President has two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a housekeeper's room, a sewing room, an attic. There are also a dining cabin, four guest cabins, a Japanese tea house, an open-air theatre, two bowling alleys, tennis courts, a billiard cabin, stables, two garages, a superintendent's house, a gardener's house, a greenhouse...
...Signalizing the advent of summer weather, the President went forth on his daily stroll wearing a straw...
...said that they were too ingratiating. There was perhaps a feeling that the players were too flagrantly depending on their unquestionably charming precocity. It is dangerous to shatter too indiscriminately the precept that children, no matter how engaging, should be seen and not heard. The Garrick Gaieties this summer is just a bit sure of itself...
Approaching summer has already suggested to the emotional that a young man's fancy should turn--and not lightly--toward thoughts of higher things than the mundane meanderings of the college year. So Northfield and its ilk again call the serious to the saw dust and the star dust of moral and spiritual reform...
...incidental expenses itemized above is $15,000. With the possible inclusion of the fund for the summer camp, this would be raised to $20,000. It may be advisable, in the opinion of this committee to start the figure at the latter figure whether the camp is approved of not, while on the other hand it seems exceedingly dubious policy to give such a new venture as this too high a goal. This is a matter which should properly be left to the discretion of the Student Council, or to that of the Finance Committee which will actually have...