Word: 1930s
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...1930s, the introduction of the Harvard National Scholarships brought in the first large numbers of immigrant and working-class students. This trend toward financial assistance in obtaining a college degree has continued...
Edward Daugherty is shown at the height of his powers in The Flaming Corsage, when his play of the same name scandalizes proper Albanians in 1912. In Billy Phelan's Greatest Game, set in the mid-1930s, Daugherty is forgotten and senile. Katrina Taylor, his lovely, highborn wife in the new novel, was evoked in Billy, as she was in Ironweed. The leading character of the Pulitzer-prizewinning Ironweed was an alcoholic ex-baseball player, Francis Phelan. In the new novel he is Katrina Daugherty's ardent young lover...
...Lewis says that his image of the house system, as outlined by President A. Lawrence Lowell in the 1930s, is that each dorm should be reflective of a cross-section of student life...
Fernald says that when she was living in Eliot during the 1930s, the house was reasonably diverse, but it was never close-knit...
DIED. MEYER SCHAPIRO, 91, art critic, historian and lecturer whose insights into the broad social context of everything from Romanesque sculpture to modern painting influenced scholars, curators and creators of art from the 1930s to the present; in Manhattan...