Word: wister
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...delivered as the Ivy Oration on Class Day. Cohen will be joined by Daniel L. Hurewitz '88, who will deliver the annual Harvard Oration, and Millicent T. Lawton '88, who is giving the Radcliffe Oration. The three were selected by the Class Day Speeches Subcommittee last month, said Wister Walcott '88, chairman of thecommittee...
...didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars." He and his kin are cynical, terse and masters of an amiably menacing tone that echoes the classic response to insult of Owen Wister's The Virginian: "When you call me that, smile...
...highlight of the annual festival was an attempt by more than 600 students to set the record for the world's largest game of I wister, an event in which players must position randoml, chosen hands and feet on colored dots that span a cloth game board...
While representatives of the Guinness Book of World Records declined to cover the event maintaining that I wister is not an international game organizers declared a new record set anyway...
...system apparently remains strong, many clubs, especially the nonselective ones, suffer from precarious economic states when they do not fill their quota of members. "The open clubs have the hardest time because they are susceptible to last minute "pull-outs," and get greater variance than the selective clubs," said Wister Wood, president of Cap and Gown, a co-ed selective club. At one point in CURL's development, the college extended an open invitation to the eating clubs to become financially supported by the university. "Essentially, they wanted to buy the clubs out, which would put them in power," said...