Word: bennetts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...negative, Franklin P. Bennett '57 an Thomas Griffin '57 of Eliot House, contended that any expansion would not only lower the standards of the University, but would also defeat the purpose of a "Harvard education." They argued that "Harvard's mission is education, not teaching," and that expansion will eliminate many intangibles from the four years a student spends here...
...Bennett and Kraft also rejected the possibility that the funds for any large scale expansion would be available. "At 8 to 13 million dollars per House, at least $100,000,000 would be required for any large expansion," they declared...
Speaking for Dunster in the affirmative will be Thomas M. Bergin '52 and George H. Kraft '58; for Eliot, in the negative, Franklin P. Bennett, Jr. '57, and Thomas C. Griffin...
...Chicago to read his poetry as a prelude to a $50-a-plate champagne supper and literary auction this week, then lined up guests and sponsors to pay for the supper so that all the receipts would go to Poetry. He ran afoul of a few Philistines. Publisher Bennett Cerf refused to kick in declaring roundly that "Poetry is dead " but when Lannan let that be known among the literati, Cerf came around. Louis Untermeyer thought the whole idea vulgar" and Poetry not worth saving. ("He's nothing but an anthologist anyway," sniffed Lannan.) One Manhattan lawyer coldly refused...
Overall, the general picture of U.S. business as it went into the year's final quarter could hardly have been brighter. As a hint of things to come, Bennett S. Chappie Jr., assistant executive vice president of U.S. Steel, predicted that in 1956, the United States will produce nearly $400 billion worth of goods and services, for an alltime record...