Word: abbotts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...statement from President Conant late-yesterday indicated that he and Charles A. Coolidge '81, of the Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch and Abbott firm, were unable to come to an agreement on the placing of the James A. Shannon memorial shaft on Soldiers Field. Coolidge, whose firm designed the stone, is understood to favor a position next to the Haughton Memorial, where attempts at setting up a preliminary foundation were frustrated Monday by Dennis Enright, superintendent of the Field...
Charles A. Coolidge '81, senior member of Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch, and Abbott, designers of the new James A. Shannon memorial, will confer with President Conant today on the question of a position of the new monument to the man who trained Harvard Reserve Officers during the war. Due to the pressure of University business the President was unable to meet the architect yesterday as was originally planned, but it is understood that no further developments have arisen in regard to the placing of the stone. Although further announcements in connection with the position of the memorial were not forthcoming from...
...students and admirers I feel bound publicly to criticize the absurd caricature of Professor W. C. Abbott set forth in the October 19th copy of your paper. Of his fondness for milkshakes and black canes, I know little and care even less. Perhaps his generosity to the blind newsdealer offsets his smug self-complacency. But to dismiss his contributions to historical scholarship and his activities as a teacher as "dull" or trivial shows a singular ignorance of the former, and a failure to appreciate the real wisdom underlying his teaching methods...
Wisely eschewing the eight-league boots of his predecessor, Professor Abbott has preferred the less brilliant and melodramatic methods of locomotion which have made him one of America's foremost historians. It is unfortunate that he conducts no course which would give us the benefit of his profound knowledge of the period of Cromwell and Charles II. It may be pertinent to observe that his general work, "The Expansion of Europe," which is neither so dull nor so momentous as the author of the alleged portrait supposes, enjoys a popularity in other countries, notably England, which is shared by very...
Those who judge professors by their eloquence or skill in "spoon-feeding" ought seduously to avoid Professor Abbott's lectures. I hope there are some others who believe that the true office of a teacher is to suggest and guide rather than to stuff or entertain. (Name Withheld by Request...