Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assistance given it by Professor Kirtley Mather and other Harvard officers. When originally conceived in 1938 as an activity of the Cambridge Social Union, the Center applied to its Boston counterpart for guidance. At that time, Mather was president of the Boston organization, and he went out of his way to aid Cambridge in setting up its branch. The enrollment that first year topped 300, and the organizers were encouraged into expanding the following year. More rooms were turned over to classes and the basement was made into a well-equipped workshop, while the number of courses grew steadily...
Four undergraduates returned to Cambridge at 4 p.m. yesterday with a tale of failure. The quartet claimed to have reached Philadelphia on their way to Beverly Hills, California, in an effort to bring movie starlet Janet Leigh back to Cambridge for a football game...
Students got about in Europe by every conceivable means, from gondola to airliner. Bicycle is the fashion abroad: on maps, roads are even marked with little pointed things to show where the hills are and which way they go. Jeeps are cheap and rugged. A few stalwarts went about on motorcycles, which are fine except on cobblestones, where they shake you to jelly...
...background, suitcases full of bottles of cheap French cognac, and perhaps a "not-to-be-introduced-into-the-United States' edition or two of Henry Miller. And once back at college, they all settled down to pceve their friends no end by comparing everything at home to "the way it's done...
...This is the introduction to a series of articles on what American students did and saw in Europe this summer. The later articles will take up the story country by country.)A cyclist in France puts the finishing touches on his luggage. Cobblestones have an insidious way of shaking it loose. They also shake loose all the screws, and bolts on the bicycle, and occasionally they fold the frame up like an accordion...