Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Hoover instructed Secretary of War Good to appoint a special commission for the General Staff. Specifically this commission was to "see what services and other outlays have become obsolete through advancement of science and war methods; and what development programs can well be spread over longer periods in view of the general world outlook." To his Shenandoah camp President Hoover took as week-end guests to ponder this problem Secretary Good, Assistant Secretaries Hurley and Davison, Chief of Staff Summerall. It was decided to let the General Staff instead of a commission thereof handle the problem...
Quite as unusual from the British point of view was Guest Dawes's handling of the Vintners' massy, golden wassail cup. Brimming with stout English sack specially brewed of old sherry and spices the Vintners' Cup was supposed to be deeply quaffed in sociable succession, first by Toastmaster the sporting Earl of Derby, second by Ambassador Dawes, third by jovial Publisher-Peer Lord Riddell, finally by the company at large after suitable replenishments. But when Lord Derby had drunk ceremoniously and passed the cup, Teetotaler Dawes pursed his firm lips, brushed the Vintners' chalice against them...
...regular Italian, as he boasts, Rico was born in Youngstown, Ohio. He drank only milk. He gave diamonds for wear not to his women but to himself. Small and pale, he was a man bound to rise because he conducted his business with only his own future in constant view. He wanted some day to have wealth equal to that of the Big Boy, a Chicago politician who protected gangsters from the legal consequences of any crime but murder...
From the point of view of the individual it would be unwise to include Freshmen in the new houses. It would mean returning to conditions as they were before the Freshman Dormitories, and the encouragement of cliques and of manouvers of clubs on the basis of school associations only. The authorities would be faced with one of two alternatives if they adopted the suggestion made by Mr. Frederick Windsor of Middlesex. They would either have to assign rooms to Middlesex men. Exeter men or Boston Latin men, away from their schoolmates for three years. This seems...
...Caroline Miller Parker collection in the Harvard Library. Mr. Parker's gift includes a fund of $5000 to assure the permanent well-being of these treasures, and he has also recently made a number of most important additions, among which is a sketch book in which Crane drew the view of the river front where the Freshman Dormitories now stand, from the opposite shore, not far from the School of Business Administration, which is reproduced here for the first time...