Word: greenough
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...latest developments of the House Plan which are indicated in Dean Greenough's letter sent to those applying for rooms in Dunster House, are really not surprising in view of the building plans. Nor would it be a cause for general amazement if applicants for Lowell House were to receive a similar letter...
Among those present at the dinner were President Lowell, Professors Greenough and Coolidge, Masters of the first two units of the House Plan, Professor Merriman, and Matthew Luce '91, regent of the University...
...world at large, the headmasters of three famed New England private schools are Dr. Samuel Smith Drury (St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H.), the Rev. Endicott Peabody (Groton School, Groton, Mass.) and Dr. William Greenough Thayer of St. Mark's School (Southborough, Mass.). To thousands of affectionate graduates, hundreds of respectful schoolboys, they are and always will be known respectively as "The Drip," "Pee-bo," and "Twill." St. Marksmen were saddened to learn last week that "Twill" had resigned. He will leave his post before the autumn. Headmaster "Twill" has earned his rest...
...have had brought to my notice an issue of your paper containing an interview with Dr. C. N. Greenough, in which he seems to think that I have, in my annual report, which was somewhat widely reported in the press, intimated that Harvard is about to start small university colleges. He rightly maintains that the new "houses" are not colleges at all. In this he is right. I have said in that report: "It is purposed to divide Harvard undergraduates into houses where they may life in closer contact with resident scholars. To many, the plan seems less significant than...
Dunster House, under Professor Greenough, will contain 110 single suites and 62 double suites. It will have a library, in the center of the House, facing the river and main court. This will hold at the beginning, about 5000 volumes carefully chosen from all fields of study in which students are interested. It is expected that practically all the books ordinarily used in tutorial work or in work outside of classes will be included, and, in addition, standard reference works and books for general reading...