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...yard free style swim--Won by Abbott W. Sherwood '35; second, Essex (D); third, F. Spech (D). Time--5 minutes, 30 seconds...
...milestone more significant for Harvard was reached last year when Abbott Lawrence Lowell, aged 76, stepped down from his 24-year presidency. And a more fruitful time for educational stock-taking arrived last week when James Bryant Conant, the 40-year-old chemistry professor who succeeded to the big paneled office in University Hall, revealed in his first annual report to its Board of Overseers the new course which Harvard hopes to steer through the years ahead...
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...
...Apparently with no intent of parodying his master's manner, Author Burnham has succeeded all too well. Though doubtless meant to hoist the standard higher, Wedding Song blows the gaff on the whole Spartan-boy-&-fox school of understatement. Kit has never forgiven his father, U. S. Tycoon Abbott, for his mother's death, for not accepting his own War bride until it was too late. His whole life is vowed to revenge. From Venice, where his sister Narcissa lives in anxious pomp with her noble Italian husband, Kit spins the cabled threads of a financial...
...John C. Cort '36, William C. Quimby '36, Edward H. Robbins '36, Abbott K. Ware '36, Stanley G. Mortimer...