Word: bryce
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early 1870's, James Bryce visited Harvard and described it as "no real university, but only a struggling college with uncertain relations to learning and research." Today, Bryce would eat his words, for 80 years has performed a miraculous--change, transforming the small provincial college of 1873 into a great university, offering opportunity for study in almost every conceivable field...
...History and Government of the People, published by Harpers in 1923, caused much comment, both in, England and the United States. The English journal, the Spectator, wrote at the time of the book's publication; "Mr. Brogan has made a purely political study covering nearly the same ground as Bryce's American Commonwealth, and in this challenging comparison with that classic work, the praises he carns in his task is that his volume is not unworthy of its predecessor..." They Yale Review of winter, 1933, believed that "no writer on our party system has given a more brillintly written...
Then, in 1936, a quiet, 61-year-old alumnus turned up at the university's tercentenary celebration to set the record straight. His name: John Bryce Gordon Rinehart. His story...
...John Bryce Gordon Rinehart passed into legend last Saturday morning in Waynesburg, Pa., at the age of 77. Five decades of Harvard men, when they heard the news, muttered a parting tribute to a man who lived 52 years with a terrible myth clouding his life. The myth is untrue. Rinehart did have friends...
...John Bryce Gordon Rinehart, the legendary recluse whose name has been shouted across the Yard by succeeding generations of University men, died Saturday in Waynesburg...