Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senate Bachelors. Last week the prospect was that the House would pass the Tariff Bill before June 1 and then recess until about August 1; that the Senate would recess until July 1, while its Finance Committee overhauls the House's measure. The certainty of a tiresome summer session prompted five Republican senators to rent the Walter Tuckerman country home near Bethesda, Md., there to establish bachelor-hall after despatching their families to cooler climates. The Senators were...
Each U. S. citizen going to France this summer will save $8-the price of three good dinners or 33 martini cocktails-through an agreement signed last week by the U. S. State Department and representatives of the French Government. Reciprocally, the price of French and U. S. visas has been reduced from...
...populace crowded the sidewalks. Flags of Cuba and of those two score nations which had sent special envoys to the Inaugural, fluttered everywhere. Cuba always has a breeze blowing. It makes Cuba more comfortable all the year round than is any U. S. city during the U. S. summer...
...Dean of the Harvard Engineering School, H. J. Hughes '94, and the Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, G. H. Chase '96, Professors J. L. Coolidge '95, and C. N. Greenough '98, Philip P. Chase '99, Dean of the Summer School, and Guy Holliday '89, Secretary of the Law School, are among those members going from the University. Charles Pelham Curtis, Jr., '14, member of the Harvard Corporation, Eliot Wadsworth '98, President of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College, and Arthur L. Endicott '94, Comptroller of the University, will also be among those Boston members...
...fact that we are here thinking and talking of these things means some thing. Culture turns on a slow wheel. . . . It is as incredible that Don Mellett's self-sacrifice, dying that others might live, will fail to cast its radiance upon striving millions as that the morning Summer sun shall fail to awaken the sleeping earth, open the petals of the nodding flowers and scatter the miasmic mists of darkness. This is the measure of our faith...