Word: tease
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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The first University Tea of the year will be held in the Parlor of Phillips Brooks House this afternoon between 4 and 6 o'clock. These Teas will be held weekly during December, January and February to provide an opportunity for the members of the University to meet informally and...
As in former years, the management of the Teas is under the direction of a standing committee composed of certain officers of the University and their wives, who will receive at each Tea. A number of men from the undergraduate classes and from the Graduate Schools will act as ushers...
These Teas of which the first will be held this afternoon perpetuate the hospitality which in early days the officers of the University were accustomed to extend, and still do extend, in their own homes.
What upperclassman after a term or two at Harvard has not been asked by his father, his uncle or some friend of the family, whether he knows Mr. "So and So", the well known Harvard professor? How often has he had to answer evasively, "Oh yes, I know of him...
Their very name, University Teas, emphasizes the fact that to them every individual member of the University is invited. If accepted in the cordial spirit in which they are given these receptions can do much toward paving the way to increasingly friendly relations between professor and student.