Word: week-ends
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...will presumably belabor the New Deal. To Mr. Smith last week went an invitation from Mrs. Roosevelt to spend the night at the White House when he is in town. Mr. Smith, a good tactician, politely excused himself. When the Press noted this byplay, a spokesman for the President announced: "This is not the first time that Mr. Smith had been invited to be an overnight guest at the White House. At least once a year, Mr. Smith has been invited to pass either a night or a week-end there. But he never saw fit to accept even...
...cuts, of monitorships, and of the other accoutrements of schoolboy disciplinarianism. The solution lies not through the chastisement of students, through turning the colleges into a concentration camp, but through the remodelling along modern and logical lines of the vacation itself, making it last from Thanksgiving through the next week-end...
...this conclusion and change the length and limits of the vacation. But the impatience of youth is extraordinary, and probably excessive, so it makes us very sad to see another class go by laboring under the enforced guilty conscience of cutting between the Thursday of Thanksgiving and the following week-end...
...Harvard players making the week-end trip include: Thomas Perry, Jr. '36; Theodore P. Robie '38; Richard G. Powell '38; Daniel E. Burbank, Jr. '37; Captain John Dorman '36; Frank W. Vincent '36; 'Thomas Motley, 2nd '33; Thomas N. Hastings '38; Edward Motley, Jr. '36; James A. E. Wood '37; Robert M. Briggs '37; Robert C. Holcombe '37; Bruce K. Fuller '26; Theodore Roosevelt, 3rd. '36; Austin W. Scott, Jr. '37; Sydney T. Dawson, Jr. '36; Robert W. Scott, Jr. '38; Floyd K. Haskell '37; Charles S. Kelley, 3rd. '36; Donald C. Sleeper '38; H. Vaughan Morgan, Jr. '37; James...
...pleasant in itself. But even the best of studies eventually cloys the palate. And in general a fortnight's diversion only whets the intellectual appetites. Harvard is the only shepherd to drive home his flock in the middle of New Year's week. Two full weeks at Christmas-time, including as they would the additional week-end, would be a most welcome extension and at the same time a most conservative allowance...