Word: teas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...request of the Sargent School, the University Instrumental Clubs have invited all students in the University to attend their concert today at 3 o'clock at the Sargent School. No admission will be charged and there will be a tea dance from 4 until 6 o'clock...
...while an instructor surgeon, cowled and gloved, removed and lectured upon the guts of a tortured dog. This gruesome spectacle, set forth in all its horrid details in the pages of the more mawkish journals, has induced many a kind-hearted madame to weep into her breakfast dish of tea, has spurred many a feeling gentleman to dash off a letter of protest to an editor. Quite rightly. For however luridly exaggerated by popular imagination, the fact that it is occasionally necessary to cause suffering in one animal in order to save many men from like anguish is none...
There will be tea-dances and parties preceding the performance. Many prominent Boston women and former patronesses of the Hasty Pudding Shows are helping "to assure success to the performance...
Tickets for Saturday night's performance will be on sale today and tomorrow at Leavitt and Peirce's; tomorrow they may be had at the Opera House, the Little Building, and at the Copley-Plaza tea dance...
...attacks Dean H. E. Stone of the University of West Virginia has written in the Educational Review that knowledge has increased to the point where too much is expected of the present generation of college men and women. He says: "The flunker, the athlete, the pampered only son, the tea hound, the college politician . . . existed when we were young and those who went to college were so few as to be 'select'." He argues that the colleges were objects of criticism in his day, but they nevertheless turned out some pretty good results...