Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undergraduates not being required to attend. The experiment has been a great success. Not only have the luncheons been well patronized, but the students, who are forever complaining about the food served at dinner, are loud in their praise of the quality of the luncheons. The food is, I think any impartial observer would agree, just as bad--or good--at luncheon as it is at dinner. But one meal is optional and the other is required: one is good...
...meal basis, the whole idea of University dining halls should be done away with, unless the University is willing to continue the practice of subsidy on the ground that House Dining Halls are a good thing. In any case the subsidy should not come from those who do not think University dining Halls are a good thing as is the case with the twenty-five percent of absentees at the Freshman dormitories or the hypothetical group of House residents who will not eat their entire allotment of fourteen meals...
...What?' cried he. 'How old do you think...
...Ruth Hale] goes over 30 miles an hour I tell her to pull down." Testifying as to whether he had feared being late for the dinner, Mr. Swope boomed: "A dinner given by city people living in the country is a nonfixed feast as to time! I don't think we were expected before 8:30 or 9 o'clock!" For his nose he was given $3,000; for her face Mrs. Swope got half as much...
...team should receive congratulations is natural, that it should be lauded on account of victory unnatural. Harvard has other rivals than Yale and the mere fact of conducting friendly athletic relations with those other teams has broadened the whole outlook on sports. It is not too strange to think that at future time, when severed bonds with Princeton have been spliced, the meaning of victory over Yale will have lost still more of its single significance in comparison with all the events of an entire season...