Word: abbott
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appeared in November. This winter the M. P. R. C. has been getting ready for the second phase of its program-to persuade or compel the cinema industry to produce better (i. e. more moral) pictures. First step was to acquire active officers with influential names. Last month Dr. Abbott Lawrence Lowell, who had headed the Council after the death of John Grier Hibben, stepped up and out of the picture by becoming honorary president. To succeed him as president, the Council elected Mrs. August Belmont, who before her marriage was Actress Eleanor Robson. For her George Bernard Shaw wrote...
...infirmary has been in the air for some time, and at present waits upon some gift for the purpose. University officials, it is understood, regard this as the most essential part of any further development of the Harvard building program. Several years ago, Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch and Abbott, University architects, submitted a drawing of a proposed addition to the present buildings...
...three are ex-officio members of the Society, and three are elected for one year only. The ex-officio members are President Conant, Dean Hanford, and Professor Brinton, the corresponding secretary of the Harvard chapter. Those who were elected are Mason Hammond '25, Instructor in Ancient Languages, Charles C. Abbott '28, Instructor in Economics, Seth T. Gano '07, graduate treasurer of Phi Beta Kappa and Richard C. Curtis '16, prominent Boston lawyer...
...yard free style swim--Won by Abbott W. Sherwood '35; second, Essex (D); third, F. Spech (D). Time--5 minutes, 30 seconds...
Students. But great masters are only half the Conant formula for Harvard's future. He wants the best apprentices too. Under Abbott Lawrence Lowell, scion of a rich and ancient Boston family, it could be argued that Harvard had become a "rich man's college." James Conant was born in unfashionable Dorchester, Mass., son of a photo-engraver. He has made himself an intellectual aristocrat. Under him Harvard's favored sons will be, beyond argument, the rich in brains...