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A friend of mine overheard a curious snatch of dialogue at the Phillips Brooks House tea the other afternoon. You know those teas--the ones where Radcliffe Freshmen meet Harvard Freshmen. Here's how the conversation went:
¶ University of Kansas sororities, permitted to spend only $125 for a four-day rushing program, began serving ice water at teas to cut down expenses.
Whoever Seattle's next conductor was, he would have to be a man who could be decorative at teas in the fashionable Highlands and Broadmoor as well as forceful on the podium. Said one Seattleite: "We ought to start him out right-with a baton of poison oak."
The rest of the day is spent as it began -reading, writing and receiving visitors. At 10 he dresses and goes into his magnificent 40,000-volume library ("It's open to all, even those many who speak ill of me"). Later, there are simple, fastidious luncheons, served on...
In 1885, a group of Harvard professors' wives--they called themselves the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women and boasted of forty students--bought the house for their headquarters. It cost them twenty thousand dollars, one half of their capital, but they were determined to give their girls the...