Word: teas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Good Show/' At dusk the files were still tramping by when the President broke off and returned to the White House to find a tea for thousands in progress on the main floor. Even some Republicans attended-Hoover Secretaries Hurley and Doak, "to pay respects," they explained. Avoiding the throng, President Roosevelt went up to the second-floor study where his whole Cabinet, confirmed a few hours before by the Senate, was assembled to be sworn in. Supreme Court Justice Cardozo, a New Yorker, administered oaths while the President sat at a desk and listened to the chorus...
...National Tea...
Social life, that is organized social life, does not play a very prominent part in the House. An occasional formal dance or a tea dance during the football season seems to be all that the House will support. However, the House lends itself admirably to individual entertaining, due to the special facilities provided in the newly constructed C entry, and guests are often seen at the noon and evening meals on Saturday and at dinner on Sunday. Some criticism may be made of this liberality of entertainment, but it is well to remember that the rules laid down are largely...
...Gore Hall, one of the best planned of the buildings, are the Junior Common Room and the Dining Room. The Junior Common Room is comfortably furnished, and well-supplied with current magazines and newspapers. Because of its size, it is well-suited for the tea dances that are held after the major football games in the fall, and for a formal dinner held before the Winter Dance. The Dining Room is large enough to seat the entire House. There are no special tables for tutors, thus allowing undergraduates and tutors to dine together as they wish. It is in this...
...Fall, tea dances were held after the Army and Dartmouth football games. On December 15th a Christmas dinner was held for members of the House and their guests. Former members of the House who were living nearby asked for a special table which was arranged. Approximately twenty-five men attended this informal House Alumni reunion. After the Dinner, a Reading was given by a tutor of the House which was followed by an enjoyable concert given by the Harvard Glee Club. A very successful Winter Dance, attended by about three hundred persons, was held on February twenty-fourth. A Spring...