Word: chases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alston Chase's article on "The World and the Faculty" is a brave bombshell. It was aimed, perhaps, at too many separate marks for a single bombshell, and will seem, to some bystanders at least, to have exploded without major damage to anyone. In the preamble, Mr. Conant is accused of leading, in the name of what seems to Mr. Chase piffling scholarship, an "Albigensian crusade" against good teaching. A good deal of this is surely pure misunderstanding. There are as yet few signs that the present administration really means to fill the Harvard faculty with men who devote their...
...opening editorial in the number written by George L. Haskins '35, presents the ideals of the new board. This is followed by John A. Strauss' '36 "Education and the Flesh," an over-hauling of "traditional academic education." This article is attacked by Alston Chase, instructor in Greek and Latin, from the point of view of a teacher in "The World and the Faculty...
...inclined this weekend. Dancing will be from 6.30 o'clock until midnight in the Lowell House Dining Hall. The patrons and patronesses will be headed by Professor and Mrs. Julian Coolidge and will include: Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Baker, Mr. P. P. Chase, Mr. and Mrs. E. Mims, Mr. and Mrs. James B. Munn, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Melius, Mr. and Mrs. E. Rosenstock-Hussy, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Sharp, and Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Laurist...
...Union Station killers, he was flushed out of an Iowa farm by two peace officers. In his first brush with authority this year, he showed that he had lost none of his finesse. Jumping into a car with two companions, he led the police on a wild chase to an empty house at the dead end of a road. There he turned on them with a machine gun and automatic rifles, shot his way out and away. A general alarm was broadcast
...coming to Harvard for graduate work should be expected adequately to be prepared. It may be argued that only men with high academic standing are allowed to waive the language requirements in entering Dean Chase's school. While this may indeed be the case, attention must be called to the fact that it is an arduous task to carry four regular graduate courses in addition to preparing a thesis without the additional burden of grounding one's self in one or two foreign languages. There may be individuals who are capable of withstanding this tremendous strain, but for the average...