Word: carvers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Seals, Arms, and Diplomas to deal with doubted legitimacy of Harvard's famous Veritas escutcheon. The baroque plaster and wood emblazoned over the Dunster House Library probably constitutes Complaint No. 1, as it is radically incorrect. When the original designers took their idea to America's greatest heraldic wood carver in 1929 they were politely thrown out of the shop. The craftsman said he would not be party to such nonsense. He proved to his would-be elients that the lozenged shape of the ornament was the heraldic symbol of spinsterdom. Unmoved the Committee on House Decorations had the work...
...opened Wednesday with a discussion of "World Trends" by Walter Lippmann '10. Hartley Howe '33, son of the Secretary to the President, who has been studying social trends abroad, spoke on the subject of "Youth Movements in England." "A Social Theory of Education" was expounded by Thomas N. Carver, professor of Political Economy, emeritus. The former Governor-General of the Philippines, Theodore Roosevelt '09, and Roscoe Pound, Dean of the Business School, also spoke yesterday. The subject of Dean Pound's address was "Our Living Constitution...
Divorced. Adolphe Menjou, cinemactor ; by his third wife, Kathryn Carver Menjou, cinemactress; in Los Angeles. Grounds: cruelty (fits of rage, profanity...
...Carver's Profession (Columbia) is a solemn little problem picture, based on the notion that woman's place is in the home. The banality of this theme is only less startling than the fact that Robert Riskin, who wrote and adapted the story, was clearly under the delusion that he was proposing an explosively novel theory for behavior. This odd combination of circumstances has a peculiar effect. It gives the picture a disarming sincerity; because Fay Wray in a serious emotional role develops a skillful and moving performance, the trite machinations of the plot acquire an incongruous validity...
Fourteen prominent members of the Faculty appearing as contributors are: J. H. Beale '82, G. D. Birkhoff '05, W. B. Cannon '96, T. N. Carver, hon., Sheldon Cheney Gr. '13, E. F. Gay '08, A. B. Hart '80, W. E. Hocking '01, A. Lawrence Lowell '77, K. B. Murdock '16, Roscoe Pound LL.D. '20, the late J. H. Ropes '89, F. W. Taussig '79, A. N. Whitehead...