Word: behinder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...avowal lies in the announcement of the "House Plan" which has as its purpose the splitting up of the undergraduate body, with the exception of the Freshmen, into a number of small social groups or "houses." Harvard realizes the fact that large institutions of our country trail far behind the smaller ones in their ability to stimulate social contact and "college spirit" in its full meaning. The project now under way calls for an expenditure of $13,000,000, the gift of Edward S. Harkness of New York City, to take the form of a group of self-contained buildings...
...building program. But this could only be a corollary to the project of the Yard, and as long as the new Houses are not arranged so as to disrupt the area entirely as an entity the undergraduate plea will be answered. If the idea behind the whole House plan prevents a symmetrical arrangement and a harmonious architecture, there is no definite reason why one unit should stare placidly across a vista at its exact reproduction. As long as the site favor a development which lacks the crowded discord of mushroom growth, anything short of futuristic pattern for the buildings...
...Auburn Street and the Freshman Halls and the Stretch between Dunster and DeWolf Streets. The much greater length than breadth of the section is a serious problem especially as regards the more-crowded western side of the proposed rectangular Yard. Any adjustment, however, which would save the empty plot behind Gore would establish a basic formula for future progress, rapid or leisurely, toward a Yard of insured openness...
...Nicholas Frederic Brady (Anaconda Copper, gas & electric utilities, Chrysler Motors), chose him when he was a vigorous, powerful assistant district attorney in New York City.* He was her brother-in-law, brother of Nicholas F. Brady's wife Genevieve Garvan Brady. And ever since she has worked, sometimes behind him, usually beside him, never before him, always with him-through his private management of their joined wealth, his custodianship of alien property his presidency of the Chemical Foundation (which as alien property custodian he created), his philanthropies. When Francis P. Garvan signs a check, document or letter with...
...talked with him, asked him to resign as chairman of the board. According to Mr. Rockefeller Jr., Col. Stewart promised to comply with this request. Nine months passed and Col. Stewart did not resign, in fact refused to resign. Mr. Rockefeller Jr. sailed for Egypt last fortnight, but left behind him a letter to stockholders, expressing loss of confidence in Col. Stewart and asking for proxies to oust him. In Chicago, Col. Stewart replied: "If the Rockefellers want to fight, I'll show them how to fight" (TIME...