Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should weight pro and con in deciding whether they are fitted for, and would enjoy, a life in the Foreign Service. They must consider whether by native intelligence, intellectual equipment, character, and personality qualifications they stand a good chance in the keenly competitive, nation-wide examinations... They should not entertain fanciful illusions about a life generally characterized by gaiety, excitement, and intrigue. These elements may develop in the life of a Foreign Service officer, but they are only occasional highlights in a career of solid, useful work for the public welfare...
Christmas dinner in the Union and New Year's Eve in the Yard is the prospect still facing most of the University's 664 foreign students. Only 30 families have volunteered so far to entertain them over the coming vacation, Peter Ways '49 of the Student Council's International Activities Committee announced last night...
...from her breadwinning chores to write a novel (Harriet Hume). Sometimes she collaborated on satirical sketches (Lions and Lambs, The Rake's Progress) with Cartoonist David Low. She managed to get abroad a good deal, and a shimmering list of continental hosts and hostesses were always eager to entertain her. The posh social life of Paris, the spas and resorts, which Miss West described in loving detail in The Thinking Reed, was first-hand reporting. When in 1937 the British Council sent Miss West to Yugoslavia and she recorded her experience in Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, she became...
Anyone wishing to entertain some foreign student either for a meal or for a week-end should contact Julie Vielman '49 or Peter O. Way '49 at Winthrop House H-51 or Eliot...
Prospective change in College parietal rules was viewed with sharp divergency by top Radcliffe and Wellesley student officials last night. A proposal to expand current 1 to 7 o'clock visiting hours to allow students to entertain in their rooms during the evening, forwarded in a CRIMSON editorial last Monday, evoked opposing reactions at the colleges...