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...Abbott Lawrence Lowell '77, President of the University, from 1910 to 1933, George Lyman Kittredge '82, the world's authority on Shakspere, Chaucer, and practically everything else connected with English literature, and Alfred North Whitehead, mathematician and philosopher--Harvard names to conjure with, but the Class of 1941 will not come under the magic of their spell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class of 1941, Born Too Late, Will Miss Three of Harvard's Great Traditions | 9/24/1937 | See Source »

Construction of both buildings will begin within a few months, as soon as detailed plans and specifications are completed. The architects for both buildings are Coolidge, Shepley, Bulifinch, and Abbott, of Boston. Gavin Hadden, of New York, will act as consultant on the planning of the gymnasium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Littauer School, Features Summer News | 9/1/1937 | See Source »

Denied an automobile driver's license when he flunked his examination last year, granted one when he passed a second examination a month later (TIME. Oct. 5), Harvard's President-Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell, 80, suffered a fractured nose and possible fractured arm in Plymouth, Mass.. when his auto, which he was driving from Boston to Cape Cod, collided with another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 9, 1937 | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

...like my doing it) but already there has crept into the newspapers some word of what he has been doing for his alma mater and I think it is better to give you the facts correctly than have them possibly seep into your office somewhat distorted. N. C. ABBOTT Superintendent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 12, 1937 | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

...Nicholas Murray Butler, who received his 35th honorary degree last winter from Trujillo University in San Domingo, appeared to be satisfied. Nor were there any degrees in prospect last week for the New York Times's commencement-speaking Editor John Huston Finley (30), Harvard's President-Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell (28), Herbert Hoover (27). In their stead 1937 had produced many a new public face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos Jun. 28, 1937 | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

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