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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leavitt & Pierce--this smoke shop has been the traditional gathering point of Harvard men for fifty years. No further comment is necessary...
William A. Kirstein '38 of the executive board of the Harvard Roosevelt Club said "We are entirely satisfied with the poll. A conclusion, if any is to be drawn, is entirely favorable to the liberal cause for which Franklin D. Roosevelt stands." No comment was made at the Democratic State Committee...
...Emerson's lifelong study and veneration of Montaigne is touched upon by Charles Cestre; Maurice Le Breten discusses Henry Adams' tardy discovery of France by way of the Norman churches and Chartres; Jacques Chevalier analyzes the intellectual affinity between Henri Bergson and William James. Bergson himself, in a graceful comment on Chevalier's essay, records his personal memories of James, whose portrait hangs before him as he writes...
...Franquelin, a French engineer, is reproduced in the opening pages. On the banks of the Charles can be distinguished a group of houses (which may be the first known view of Harvard!) with the explanation: "Cambridge, bourgade de 80 maisons. C'est une universite." This succinct comment probably represents all that was known about Harvard in the dominions of Louis XIV. How far that little candle (to quote Shakespeare and Mr. Curley) now throws its beams can be judged from a perusal of this collection of studies. We are reminded of the contributions of Professor W. M. Davis of Harvard...
Ward's President Sewell Lee Avery had no comment to make on his end of the rug case but President Benjamin H. Roberts of Bird & Son declared: "The transaction involved in this case was made prior to the passage of the Robinson-Patman act. . . . Bird . . . has exercised great vigilance in endeavoring to observe this law and avoid any controversy. The issue in the case is of such a character as to probably clarify some doubtful provisions of this...