Word: teas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Invitations have been issued for Eliot's fall "courtesy tea," this Sunday, Sylvia Larrabee dorm social chairman, announced yesterday. Doors will open...
...jokes and a communicable delight in chemistry and physics. Julius Oppenheimer-who had begun to consider his son as a kind of public trust-arranged for Klock to give Robert a special, intensive summer course in chemistry. They brought their lunches to the laboratory. While Klock brewed strong tea in beakers over a Bunsen burner, Rbbert turned out "a bushel of work" that never failed to rate the coveted Klock rubber stamp: "OK-AK." In six weeks, Robert completed a year's course. Says Klock: "He was so brilliant that no teacher would have been skillful enough to prevent...
Angelic Monkey. Poet T. S. Eliot, invited to tea to meet him, remembered "a man in spectacles, who appeared to combine a frail physique with exceptional vitality . . . He . . . was modest and unassuming to the point of humility: that unconscious humility, one discovered later, was in him a natural quality . . . which made one, in time, feel very humble oneself in his presence...
Once Fix turned to the group, referring to a kind of compressed cereal, said, "Gentlemen, you have six doughboys. You may do with them what you wish." That day each person had one doughboy and a cup of tea for food...
...class will cast their ballots in Agassiz and the dorms next Wednesday and Thursday after meeting the candidates in person at a tea in Agassiz living room Tuesday afternoon...