Word: wanderings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Something new has been added. That is the seasoned opinion of a man who has taken every opportunity to sip tea and wander through receiving lines since that terrifying day at the beginning of his Freshman year when he wandered into Phillips Brooks House with a little tag on his coat...
Officers. After dinner officers are nominally free, though many work some evenings. They wander from the long, polished-floored, white-walled dining hall to the glassed-in porch furnished with comfortable wicker chairs and tables with magazines, and they read or write, play with a bulldog puppy named Winston Churchill or go out on the stone porch to play ping-pong with WAAFs. Some stroll out on the thick, ruglike lawn and bang croquet balls inexpertly through wickets, using golf terms because they do not know croquet nomenclature. Officers are flooded with local invitations. Many country Britons write, mentioning lovely...
Asserting that "in the present emergency students cannot be allowed to wander about in the underbrush finding courses," A. Chester Hanford '17, Dean of the College, said in a forum held at Dunster House last night that the College must give "strong advice" to students on suitable courses...
...sculls, "comps," and wherries at one end of the float, while at the other end approximately 16 House crews struggle with each other to get their shells in or out of the water. The rest of the float is well taken care of by around 50 potential rowers, who wander aimlessly about taking sun baths, watching crews come and go, and searching for the type of boat they wish to take out. Meanwhile, the Boathouse attendants putter around helplessly, unable to do anything about the situation and wondering how many shells they will have to repair "tomorrow" as a result...
Harvard students who are accustomed to wander into any course they wish will receive a rude jolt if they attempt to do so at Summer School. For there is a fee of five dollars to audit another course without taking examinations or doing the required work...