Word: abbotts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...holder to join. When an acceptance arrived on N.A.A.C.P. stationery, the City Club hastily sent an emissary to beg Ne gro Piekens to let his invitation "drop for fear of doing harm." Officials in Hyannis, Mass., who last month flunked Harvard's crusty 79-year-old President-Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell in a driving test (TIME, Sept. 14), gave him a new examination, announced that he had passed it, been granted a new license...
BEING LITTLE IN CAMBRIDGE WHEN EVERYONE ELSE WAS BIG-Eleanor Hallowell Abbott-Appleton-Century...
Decorations for the Tercentenary Theatre were handled by the University architects, the firm of coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch, and Abbott...
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...