Word: roistering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Within, Fly members sat down to roister together. Outside there was roistering too. In nearby Lowell House, Harvard undergraduates staged a mock broadcast of the dinner at the Fly. Play by play they reported the event from open windows: "Now the President is taking off his galoshes. . . . The President is choking on an oyster. . . . Now he is drinking champagne. . . . Flash! Al Smith has just disappeared in the basement. . . ." The broadcast came abruptly to an end when the police interfered...
...thousands of bedaubed revelers who annually roister through Manhattan's Beaux-Arts Ball realize that their patronage indirectly helps to raise money to send one architectural student to Paris for two-and-a-half years. Last week in Manhattan the beneficiary of last winter's ball was announced. He was Paul Malcolm Heffernan, 26, of Ames, Iowa, who studied architecture at Harvard. Completely surprised, Winner Heffernan blushed, stammered...
Like a proud, fussy host, President Robert Maynard ("Bob'') Hutchins of the University of Chicago settled a batch of students in his new "College" last autumn (TIME, Sept. 21). Ever since, the College has much resembled a high-brow houseparty. You work as you go, study or roister as you please, plan to get a College certificate in two years or so, then do specialized work in one of the ''Divisions." Last week Host Hutchins gave his guests a try at a new, exciting party game: Examinations. The new Board of Examinations, after lengthy studies, issued a set of questions?...
...given degree credits. Dr. MacCracken, English scholar and professor, pointed out that many early English plays were written and performed in English schools. Said he: "We are but following the English custom in this, for it was an Eton headmaster, Nicholas Udal, who wrote the first English comedy extant, Roister Doister, four centuries...
...Later in the day President Hoover received a large delegation of newsboys from all over the land. One youngster began to roister noisily before the President. Reprimanded, he apologized to President Hoover who said...