Word: edmunds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rome is strong, the Catholics are also building a mighty cathedral. But last week Rt. Rev. Albert Augustus David's cathedral seemed a little in the lead. To it Sir Edmund Hoyle Vestey, 68, and his brother, William Vestey, Baron Vestey, 75, promised ?220,000 ($1,200,000) to build a vast central tower 327 ft. high in memory of their parents...
...first speaker of the evening will be George Gore '34, who will give the "Address to the Graduating Class," originally delivered by Edward A. Alderman. He will be followed by Richard P. Wheeler ocC, who is to give "The British Character", by George Santayana '86. Next, selections from Edmund Burke's "Conciliation with the American Colonies" are to be presented by Leonard C. Lewin '36. The subject of the address of John W. Yungblut '35 is "The Secret of Bishop Lawrence's Wisdom," by President Lowell...
President Conant, William Lawrence '71, former Bishop of Massachusetts and Fellow of Harvard University, and Oliver M. W. Sprague '94, Edmund Cogswell Converse Professor of Banking and Finance, will address the luncheon which is being given as part of the forty-third annual meeting of the Harvard Teacher's Association on Saturday at 1 o'clock in the Hotel Commander, Cambridge. This luncheon will conclude a week of meetings and conferences held by the Association in cooperation with the Harvard School of Education...
...general, the outlook for recovery is fairly hopeful at present," said Oliver M. W. Sprague '94, Edmund Cogswell Converse Professor of Banking and Finance, in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday. "Recovery," he continued, "does not depend entirely, however, on monetary factors or on any steps taken by the government...
...sympathize with him for wanting to tell people how many books he has read and how nice they all were, and in sympathy we can forgive much. We can wink at his little knack of splitting infinitives and misusing words; we can smile tolerantly when he tells us that Edmund Burke was a Democrat and "A Vindication of Natural Society" the most sincere expression of his political philosophy; we can, with an effort, keep our gorge down when he says he can never forget a certain line in "Kubla Khan" and proceeds to mangle its beauty by misquotation. But when...