Word: abbott
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard's busy old President Abbott Lawrence Lowell proved to his own satisfaction last week that cultured conversation, the hope of Harvard's house-planners, is burgeoning at Cambridge. Addressing 300 freshmen on The Democracy of the House Plan, he said: "I went to Dunster House tonight . . . went to a table where there were two fellows and dined with them ... I didn't ask them their names nor they mine. We discussed Homer, Virgil and Milton. Afterwards I felt I had been discussing subjects with which I am none too familiar. I get that way by keeping constantly in touch...
Plans have been made recently by the firm of Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch, and Abbott to double the size of the present Gore Hall dining room by an underground extension into the dormitory court. The excavation will start next week when two or more steam shovel crews will enter the court by a breach to be made in the fencing facing the river. Already shrubbery and paving have been removed from the site...
...might a proud but modest hen, couched on a whole nestful of golden eggs, President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard discouraged last week the query, "How come...
Stolen Heaven (Paramount). Nancy Carroll wears pretty clothes and struggles with stupid dialog, with weak direction by George Abbott, and with a story by Dana Burnet that might have been impressive, if thoroughly and patiently dealt with, but that turns out badly. A young man (Phillips Holmes) who has held up a radio factory meets a discouraged girl in a city street late at night. She hides him in her room and, liking each other, they make a bargain. They decide to go to Florida to spend the $20,000 he has stolen; when it is gone, they will commit...
This evening at the Lowell High Table there will be present Dr. Abbott of Lawrenceville, President Compton of Tech, Cecil Jane, visiting professor at Wellesley, graduate of Oxford and London University, and Professor S. E. Morison...