Word: suppers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...successful businessman, Collector Wise succumbed to the bibliophilic passion early, sometimes went without his supper to buy some treasurelet from a secondhand bookstall. As his London produce business prospered, Thomas James Wise bought more & more books, became known as Britain's foremost book collector and bibliographer. He was a friend of the late great Algernon Charles Swinburne, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad. He was frequently consulted as an authority on literary forgeries. Intimates smiled to each other about his harmless little habit of snitching lumps of sugar from cafe tables and hiding them away in a tin. At 74, dome...
...After supper tonight Freshmen get their first living, if vicarious, view of the lump of student activity when undergraduate leaders address them from the Brooks House rostrum at 7:30 o'clock...
...shaking fingers in the other. It is hard for the popular Andoverite or Grotonian to understand the feeling of complete, bitter solitude which assails countless new students the first few days of their college career. The Union has tried to mitigate this condition by providing an excellent buffet supper on registration day, served by waitresses with motherly smiles. What with the awful immensity of Memorial Hall and the complexities of the registration card, University Hall can do little to help...
...Buffet supper at Harvard Union. All Union activities are open equally to those Freshmen living in the dormitories and those living at home...
...Buffet supper at Harvard Union. All Union activities are open equally to those Freshmen living in the dormitories and those living at home...