Word: conant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard dormitories, on the day of the Harvard-Yale football game, staff members of The Yale Record, undergraduate funnypaper, planted a spurious edition of The Harvard Crimson, undergraduate daily. Alarmed Harvard-men read that President James Bryant Conant had resigned, would be replaced by Yaleman Robert Maynard Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago. Also headlined was a report that Football Coach Richard Cresson Harlow, who is also a Harvard associate in oology, would become a Yale professor of ornithology because "ornithology has always been my main interest and I have always maintained that birds lay bigger and better eggs...
President and Mrs. Conant will be at home and glad to see all instructors and members of the faculties and their wives tomorrow afternoon from 4 to 6 o'clock...
President and Mrs. Conant will be at home and glad to see all instructors and members of the faculties and their wives on Sunday, December 3, from 4 to 6 o'clock...
...CRIMSON printed a regular four-page morning edition, and within six minutes of the final whistle in the Stadium had an extra on Larz Anderson bridge with the final score and play-by-play account of the game. "Conant Resigns Presidency; Hutchins Named As Successor" was the headline of the Record's bogus issue distributed at Soldiers Field before the game, while "Harlow Resigns Post" was the 72 point banner on the News' effort which was delivered in the dormitories and Houses in the morning...
President and Mrs. Conant will be at home and glad to see all men who are students in the University at the President's house, 17 Quincy Street, on Sunday, from 4 to 6 o'clock...