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...balancing delicately between Harvard indifference and communal comfort have organized social life without cramping the individual." He likes the idea of the cross-system even if there are others who don't. His argument is direct and sustained, though sometimes with prophecy: "the House plan has made the Clubman, old-style, archaic. Diehards who will not follow their more reasonable associates to Eliot and Dunster are responsible for a growing spirit of intolerance which is new to Harvard . . . Anti-pacifism, anti-radicalism, and anti-Semitism all were born in the Clubs . . . And today the best clubmen are virtually indistinguisable from...
...challenger for the America's Cup, taught him to fly, but up until two years ago he preferred to streak across the New Jersey flats in a custom-built Mercedes-Benz. Today the Mercedes-Benz is in the barn and Mr. Grubb drives a Plymouth. Horseman, clubman, he is one of Wall Street's best-dressed brokers...
Died. John Wanamaker Jr.. 45, sportsman, clubman, member of Pershing's War-time staff, grandson of the late Store Founder John Wanamaker; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan...
...only ones which you can make what you want. While they may not be the happiest ones, they belong to you in a sense no others will. Try and make something out of them. If your ambition is to become a social success and become a final clubman, do it well. If your ambition is to become a scholar, do it well. If your ambition is to become an athlete, do it well. Or if your ambition is to become a literary light, do it well. While G. K. Chesterton may have said. "What's worth doing, is worth doing...
...elected Dean of Arts & Sciences last year (TIME, Oct. 12, 1931); Edward Allen Whitney, Associate Professor & Tutor in History and Literature; Francis Parkman of the famed Harvard family; Missouri-born Professor George Harold Edgell of the Fine Arts Department; Boston Lawyer Charles Pelham Curtis Jr., 37, a distinguished clubman but a stutterer; Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams; Law Professor Francis Bowes Sayre, Woodrow Wilson's son-in-law; Harvard Consultant-on-Careers Augustus Lowell Putnam (nephew); Biologist Clarence Cook ("Pete") Little, politically ousted ex-president of the University of Michigan; Professor Samuel Eliot Morison, official Harvard historian...