Word: antiquarians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...willingness to hear and consider the unanimous sentiment of the undergraduate body, but also reveals the determination of the authorities to avoid, wherever possible, reactionary methods of discipline and intolerable instances of police control. In the face of this type of administration, Harvard will never be accused of antiquarian methods of running its own house or of failing to live up to its promise of progressive liberality in all its dealings...
Died. Montague Rhodes James, 73, British educator and classicist, since 1918 Provost of Eton College; after long illness; in Eton, England. Respected among scholars for his Bible studies, his wider fame rested on his best-selling antiquarian ghost stories. His paragraph in Who's Who was 14 lines longer than his nearest competitor, Nicholas Murray Butler...
...position of the new pump as first planned, without any bearing on the old location, was naturally very disconcerting to the more antiquarian-minded Alumni, but thanks to the interest of Mr. Durant, the Business Manager, and Mr. Johnson, in charge of the Maintenance Department, much time has been spent in locating the old well, so as to place the pump in exactly the same position...
...well itself will not be disturbed or hurt in any way, the pump will be a faithful replica of the old one in form and position, and both the modern and antiquarian groups should be more than satisfied. John P. Brown
...will allow, are arranged geographically in the spacious newspaper room. In a part of the building which is not guarded as though under quarantine, bound editions from London, Paris, New York, Boston, Springfield, Chicago, San Francisco, and even Atlanta may be viewed at leisure. Be the explorer a genuine antiquarian, he will be shown priceless colonial papers kept in fireproof cases. The contrast between the two systems is discernible. One is good, the other bad, completely inadequate. The powers in Widener have obstinately refused the suggestion that a Hearst paper, for historical purposes only, be kept on file. They have...