Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...behind the Institut is Harvard Business School's Professor Georges F. Doriot. French-born General Doriot, 60 (he served in the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps), began plugging five years ago for a European graduate business school to serve the European Common Market he saw coming. The Paris Chamber of Commerce agreed to sponsor and administer the school. The European Productivity Agency offered to help pay professors' salaries; various European and U.S. companies gave money, set up a student loan fund that is helping 80% of the first class to pay the $1,400 tuition. Harvard delegated Doriot...
...chief advocates of a return to the full gold standard for both the U.S. and European nations are French Economic Adviser Jacques Rueff, the architect of France's successful financial-austerity program, and Philip Cortney, president of Coty, Inc. and chairman of the U.S. Council of the International Chamber of Commerce...
Holmes will also combine with Quincy in the use of art and photographic studies, she said, and in addition to forming several small chamber groups, the houses hope to set up a Quincy-Holmes chorus...
...finished town hall is full of Aalto signature details, from the homey touch of grass growing on the informal stairway entry to the dramatic cantilever of the council hall, within which is the visitors' balcony overlooking the town council chamber. Wood, which the Finns call "green gold," is used exuberantly in the playful trusses in the roof and with caressing respect in the solid red pine furniture specially designed by Aalto for the interiors. Aalto can also be intensely practical, as he is in his design for the Lutheran Church at Vuoksenniska, finished earlier this year. Knowing the problems...
...expect. For amusement, almost every undergraduate joined a club, and these existed often only for bacchanalian orgies. The best remembered organization of the period was the "Med. Fac.," which Quincy unsuccessfully tried to suppress in 1834. Secret meetings of the Med. Fac. were highlighted by libations from a silver chamber-pot or by hazing of unknowing freshmen; the administration railed against the breeches of discipline this body created, but did not suppress it until this century...