Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Woodworth visit brought nothing but trouble to Harvard and to the Lampoon. It wasn't her fault. She did what she was told. Kambers dragged her everywhere, condescending to allow her to attend the dance for all of fifteen minutes, just time for the newsreel cameras, undoubtedly run by her home studio, to whirr. As a crowning disgrace. Kambers and the Boston newshounds got her to pause for a luscious bit of cheesecake in the lap of the John Harvard statue. When Marjorie departed from Boston the morning after, the Lampoon knew it was through with Hollywood. The visit hurt...
...chapter is actually supplied by the young and shapely Senorita Montez, like her predecessors, a semi-star who hopes to let Harvard make her the real thing. The young lady admits to knowing absolutely nothing about the Student Union, the organization which invited her here. Her studio arranged her visit and fixed her invitation. Brought up in a convent, she has nothing in common with her hosts except possibly a longing to see her name or her face in print. Luckily nothing untoward has happened so far. There would have been an unfortunate incident if her press-agent had succeeded...
While the Varsity travels to Princeton with the rest of the Harvard athletic teams, the soccer Freshmen will be the lone college contenders who will not visit New Jersey. Newly-elected Captain Dough Thompson will lead his eleven against the school whose goal nets he guarded last fall, Exeter. Last weekend the Freshmen were beaten by Andover...
...during her first year in India, Missionary Reed chanced to visit a hill-country colony of 500 lepers and became interested in their plight. In 1891, on her first furlough home to the U.S., she learned she had become a leper herself. Without telling her friends, she returned to India, started work among the lepers at Chandag. Because lepers have very little strength, most leprosariums have some non-leper helpers. Chandag had none. Miss Reed preached, healed, built a church and then dormitories, nursed her lepers, organized them into a self-helping community...
...State Department, and for stubborn old Secretary Hull, the treaty was a triumph. At every Pan American Conference since Mr. Hull's visit to Montevideo in 1933, Argentina has found it to her best interests not to follow through on hemisphere solidarity. What the State Department had almost despaired of doing, World...