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That morning on the Theatre's stage President Conant. flanked by President Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell and by Harvard's oldest living graduate, a 95-year-old Boston lawyer named Henry Munroe Rogers (Class of 1862), blared his welcome to the alumni through two giant loudspeakers. He then proceeded to read several letters written by far-sighted alumni in 1836 to be read at the 1936 Tercentenary. President Quincy, it turned out, had neglected to seal them up before 1843. An unnamed Philadelphia graduate had been willing to wait a century for the denouement of a crabbed jest...
After lunch in Memorial Church with the members of his staff, President Roosevelt was whisked off by car to snug old Sanders Theatre for a final alumni gathering. There he was greeted by Harvard's President-of-the-Day. Abbott Lawrence Lowell who once lectured him in Government 1, and by that archfoe of New Deal tax policy, Yale's President James Rowland Angell (TIME, June 15). To the crowds outside in the rain, fighting with police for admission, microphones carried a rare piece of Presidential...
...Four days previously the members of the Power Conference were invited behind a board fence next to a garage on the grounds of the Smithsonian Institution, there to see a solar engine which Secretary Charles G. Abbott, of the Institution, perfected to a point where it could produce power as cheaply as coal at $3 a ton. Unfortunately the engine "burnt out a bearing" an hour or two before the visitors arrived. President Gano Dunn of J. G. White Engineering Corp. pointed out to them that if the surface of the lake behind Boulder Dam were covered with such engines...
...story of Harvard is here from its earliest conception by the Great and General Court of Massachusetts and its successful birth by virtue of John Harvard's gifts. Through Master Eaton and President Henry Dunster to "the great Leverett" and through Kirkland to Charles William Eliot and Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Professor Morison has traced its now illustrious now "low and languishing" course through three centuries...
Long familiar to Cape Cod residents has been the sight of Harvard's white-haired little President Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell careening over the roads at the wheel of his high-sided old black sedan. In 1932 he was haled into court for driving on the wrong side of the road, got off scot-free. Recently frosty old Dr. Lowell, nearing 80, applied for a renewal of his driver's license, was obliged to take an examination under a new Massachusetts ruling requiring operators of 65 or more to pass a rigid test. Last week at Hyannis, Examiner...