Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard's wide-awake Student Council has made a very important change in the organization of the Senior Album and deserves undergraduate congratulations. In the past, five Juniors were elected in the Spring of the college year, and these men were responsible for the publication of their Senior Album. Under the new ruling the Juniors will be elected by popular vote early in January, and they will then aid the Album Committee of the class ahead of them. This arrangement will give these Juniors good experience in Album production, which will amplify their work in their Senior year...
...annual report the Chairman of Admissions points to a mature Freshman class drawn from all parts of the country. An increasingly wide geographical distribution of students is filing down the steel grip which one small section of the country has held on the Committee of Admissions...
...black horse and dressed in black velvet, John Gielgud came as "Night." On a white horse Gertrude Lawrence came as "Day." Mrs. S. Stanwood Menken, "Silver Rain," wore 600 yards of silver-lined bugle fringe, a headdress six feet wide illuminated with blue neon tubes. Gypsy Rose Lee wore spangles. That was the seventeenth Beaux-Arts Ball which took place at Manhattan's Hotel Astor last week...
...spaces. "Louder! Louder!" shouted the brokers as Mr. Smith began to ask for hospital contributions. Desperate, officials ordered all Exchange machinery stopped for the duration of the Smith remarks. "This is the last place to explain that in the past six years we have been passing through a world-wide depression," rumbled the once Happy Warrior...
...Hospitals have received no new endowments. Returns from existing endowments have vanished or have been materially reduced." While Mr. Smith was pleading his high cause, suspension of nation-wide ticker service with the day's closing prices and final bid & ask quotations brought down a flood of startled inquiries and outraged protests by telephone and telegraph...