Word: affair
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Smoker for first year students conducted by the Business School Students Club tomorrow night ushers in a year of activity across the Charles. Approximately 650 first year men are expected to attend the informal affair where they will hear President Lowell and Dean Donham in welcoming addresses. The president of the organization, J. H. Walker 20.B.H., will produce at the meeting...
...affair will be the first of a series of informal gatherings sponsored by the Business School Students Club for the coming year. Arrangements for lectures by men prominent in the business and industrial world are being made now under the direction of Charles Lockwood 2G.B.S. The entertainment committee, headed by John Gage 2G.B.S., is planning tea dances and other social activities which will take place in the club quarters this fall...
This is from start to close a Freshman affair. Few upperclassmen will gain much from the pictures, microscopes, and anatomical disclosures which they did not know before. Save for Professors Shapley's cosmic wit there is no incentive to return unceasingly. The course as organized neither rises above nor falls below the average of mass instruction. It probably offers as many opportunities as, the other introductory courses in science, but no more. They all fall through the necessity of establishing a strict norm in order to grade the students as easily as possible. Therefore there is much unnecessary routine, much...
...Service) visited him with a request from the Ministry of Interior to vacate the country within 36 hours. Publisher Hearst spurned the day's grace, took the afternoon boat-train for London. Next day the French Premier explained that the expulsion had its origin in the famed Horan affair of 1928.* Aware that Publisher Hearst had visited Paris unmolested only a month before, observers gave, little credence to the "Horan" reason, recalled instead the aforementioned article in the Frankfurter Zeitung...
...casket business is no static affair. A flux of styles from decade to decade keeps things moving. The height of current fashion is National's Cast Bronze Sarcophagus, a 1,400-lb., $16,000, silk-lined affair. From 1910 to 1920 the leader was a fancy mahogany casket selling at around $3,500. A trend toward colors is likewise setting in. Cream, champagne, grey, pink, green, and rainbow-tinted caskets are popular now. Recently an actress was buried in a bright orchid colored casket lined in satin ruffles; officials of a smaller western company still talk...