Word: craning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meeting of the Cambridge City Council yesterday afternoon, Mayor Edward A. Crane '35 announced that he has received word from the American Automobile Association in Washington, D.C. that this city is a third place winner in a competition--the 1949 National Pedestrian Protection Contest--sponsored by that body...
Harvard instructors who signed the letter were Professors Arthur M. Schlesinger, C. Crane Brinton '19, John F. Fairbank '29, James K. Galbraith, Seymour E. Harris '20, and Charles H. Taylor. Associate Professors Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, Myron P. Gilmore, and Robert L. Wolff '36, Assistant Professor John E. Sawyer, and Lecturer McGeorge Bundy...
...ELECTRIC CRANE...
...fared no better, says Psychologist Charles. There was Washington Irving's gawky schoolmaster Ichabod Crane, "with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that [his head] looked like a weathercock perched upon his spindle neck . . ." Tom Sawyer's bewigged schoolmaster was fussy, pedantic, strict ("his rod and his ferule were seldom idle") and frustrated ("The darling of his desires was to be a doctor, but poverty had decreed that he should be nothing higher than a village schoolmaster"). Wolfe's idea of a schoolmaster, also described in Look Homeward, Angel...
...Crane Brinton '19, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, called Matthiessen's death "a very terrible thing, a very terrible loss...