Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from 1801 to 1835. Written in 1827 to furnish data about his life to Associate Justice Joseph Story, who was reviewing Marshall's History of the Colonies for the North American Review, the autobiographical sketch discovered five years ago,* shed little new light on its author's life. But the letter, written when the Constitution was 40 years old voiced sentiments interesting on the Constitution's 150th birthday: "I begin to doubt whether it will be long practicable peaceably to elect a Chief Magistrate possessing the powers which the Constitution confers on the President of the United...
...masterful "Copeland Translations," and "The Copeland Reader" of which he was the author, were described by Robert Hillyer '17, present holder of Copey's famous professional chair, as "a Harvard contribution to American letters of which we may justly be proud...
...taught at Cambridge University, and the University of London until his appointment here. He and Albert Einstein did considerable work together in the mathematical field, and Whitehead is the author of "Principia Mathematica," and the "Principle of Relativity." He was called one of "the three real persons of genius in the world today," by Gertrude Stein. The other two were Pieassa and Gertrude Stein...
Tunis, who is best known to Harvard readers as the author of "Was College Worth While?" based, he said, on reports from members of the Class of 1911, declares in his article, that the whole problem of getting students boils down to this: "There aren't enough clients to go around, and a wild scramble for students has been the result." The competition between colleges has in fact, Tunis declares, become so intense that prospective students are being bribed, bought, and even kidnapped in order to build enrollments. A case in Indiana is reported where three students were transported...
...signed letter from the 16th President are shown. The only book from the library of Andrew Johnson is the text of his impeachment trial proceedings, together with a ticket of admission to the trial. Herbert Hoover's own copy of "American Individualism" of which he was the author is likewise displayed. The books are, for the most part, the gift of Henry S. Howe...