Word: crossed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Members of the Debating Council were assigned to teams for debates with Radcliffe, Holy Cross, Yale, Brown, Williams, and Amherst at a meeting in Lowell House Common Room last evening. The assignments were announced by assistant coach Irving Murray in the absence of Edward Rowe, Harvard's Debating Director...
...Holy Cross debate at Worcester on Tuesday, November 9, the members of the team will be Robert Bean '39 and Joseph Healy '38, with Malcombe Wilkey '40 as alternate. The question there is "Resolved: That this House approves the foreign policy of this Administration," and Harvard has the negative...
...most astounding inventions in recent years has been the development and application of the photo-electric cell. We turn into our drive-way, approach the garage, cross an invisible beam of light, and the garage doors open before us. We stoop over a drinking fountain, and a invisible hand turns on the water...
Died. Colonel Grayson Mallet-Prevost Murphy, 58, senior partner of G.M.-P. Murphy & Co., World War U. S. Red Cross Commissioner and lieutenant colonel in the A.E.F.; of bronchopneumonia; in Manhattan. In 1921 Grayson Murphy laid the foundation of his financial reputation by skillfully reorganizing Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Last year a committee he headed salvaged for debenture holders what little there was to be salvaged from the Kreuger & Toll disaster. Little known outside of Wall Street, Grayson Murphy was not only a Republican who shot grouse in Scotland, but in 1928 a Liberal (meaning wet) Republican...
...book begins with Joseph nervously putting last touches on the Wotton Vanborough exhibit. With this scene as its casual centre it launches into a circling recital of upper-crust extravagances and lower-class problems, mixed, its methodical madness suggesting nothing so much as a cross between Evelyn Waugh and Marcel Proust. Proust and Waugh have at bottom much the same chillingly precise appreciation of high-flown decadence, and the combination of their two techniques here serves the author very well. Waugh-ish are the incidental plot and background, which largely describe the scurryings from London to Paris to the Lido...