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...this proposed reform blesses more than the C man; it is a true antitoxin for overspecialization, it resurrects the ideal of "knowing a little about a lot," and above all stresses good teaching. When Dean Hanford recalls great names like Bliss Perry, Norton, and Palmer, he unintentionally brings to mind the scarcity of such men in present-day Harvard. With teachers who can stimulate from the platform as well as in the study the 'University will more closely approximate a broad, liberal education than by any other means...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELEGY ON EDUCATION | 2/1/1939 | See Source »

Richard B. Finn '39, Henry D. Oyen '41, and Kenneth T. Young, Jr. '39, have been awarded the William H. Bliss awards for extra-curricular study of American history, Howard M. Jones, Professor of English, and chairman of the Harvard Committee for Extra-Curricular Study of American History announced yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YOUNG, FINN, OYEN GET BLISS AWARDS FOR U.S. HISTORY | 1/18/1939 | See Source »

From later classes come Robert Woods Bliss '00, former Minister to Sweden, and former Ambassador to Argentina, and one President of the Harvard Club of Paris; Henry F. Atherton '05, President of the Allied Chemical and Dye Corporation; Edgar B. Stern '07, former President of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange; Francis Biddle '09, former Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board; Clarence B. Randall '12, former President of the Associated Harvard Clubs, vice-president of the Inland Steel Co.; and William Tudor Gardiner '14, ex-Governor of Maine, and former Overseer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SALTONSTALL WILL BE CHIEF MARSHAL AT COMMENCEMENT | 1/10/1939 | See Source »

Born. To Marshall Field III, 45, Chicago department store scion; and his third wife, Ruth Pruyn Phipps Field, 32; a daughter; in Manhattan. The baby (their second, her fourth, his fifth) was expected to become an aunt shortly, since her half-sister, Mrs. Anthony A. Bliss. 21, was due to become a mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 9, 1939 | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...Improving and coordinating the existing peace machinery by further implementing of the Buenos Aires treaties of 1936 will probably be the biggest accomplishment in the political field of the Pan-American conference at Lima," Clarence H. Haring '07, Clarence Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics, said yesterday in an interview...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Improved Peace Treaties May Result at Lima, Says Haring | 12/14/1938 | See Source »

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