Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...first Friday Afternoon Tea will be held in the parlor of Brooks House from 4 to 6 o'clock this afternoon. Mrs. Shaler, Mrs. C. H. Smith and Mrs. E. C. Pickering will receive, with other ladies to assist, and it is hoped that most of the professors will be present at one time or another during the afternoon. Every member of the University is cordially invited to attend in an entirely informal way and it should be understood that no especial dress is required. These teas, which will be continued on Friday afternoons during the next three months...
...safety, including air-brakes and an air-whistle communicating with the engineer. In addition to a patent interlocking coupler, safety chains will be added between the cars, and with the platforms connecting the cars, the train will have the same solidity of motion as a wide vestibuled train of parlor or sleeping cars...
There will be an important meeting of the Cuban Committee in Brooks House Parlor at 7.15 o'clock tonight. All the men mentioned below should be present. If anyone cannot be there, he should see me in my room (26 Claverly Hall) between 3 and 4 this afternoon. W. BURDEN...
...meeting of the undersigned members of Harvard University was held last night in the parlor of Phillips Brooks Memorial to consider the housing of the Cuban teachers who will be in Cambridge for six weeks during the summer. All expenses for instruction and board will be paid by Harvard University, and a subscription to that end will be taken up among the graduates. The women, about 900 in number, will be lodged in the private boarding houses of Cambridge and it will be necessary to find rooms, furniture and bedding for the men in the College dormitories. There will...
...parlor of Phillips Brooks House will be open on Friday afternoons from four to six during the rest of the winter. Mrs. Eliot, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Pickering, Mrs. Shaler, and a few other ladies, together with some of the instructors in the different departments, will be present each week, and will be glad to welcome there, in a quite informal way, any members of the University...