Word: eliot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heavy Monthly (now defunct). Rustic Stuart Chase wrote nothing but routine essays for professors. Ebullient John Reed made both the Monthly and the whimsical Lampoon. Beefy Hamilton Fish Jr. was in the literary Signet Society, partly because he was football captain. Brightest light of all was Thomas Stearns Eliot - he was taken into the two literary clubs, Stylus and Signet, was secretary of the Advocate...
Still going strong, the latest issue of "Mother" Advocate pays tribute to her 1910 secretary by printing a whole number in his honor. The issue was interesting principally as it showed in what ways the boy Tom Eliot was father to T. S. Eliot, the poet...
...never popular. He fancied French poets but abhorred the self-conscious readings at Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland's rooms, and shied away from the spectacular new drama courses of George Pierce Baker. Harvard scholars then had a Teutonic reverence for degrees, and after a graduate year in Paris Eliot returned to Harvard and worked for a Ph.D. in philosophy, studying Sanskrit and Pali on the side. His Ph.D. thesis on F. H. Bradley and Meinong's Gegendstandstheorie was accepted, Eliot says, "because it was unreadable." He never took his degree...
Youngest child of elderly parents, Eliot at Harvard was tense, sensitive and reserved. His Advocate contemporaries say he was English in everything but accent and citizenship. His remarks were quiet, witty, precise but not precious. He smoked a pipe, liked to be alone, carefully avoided slang, and dressed with the studied carelessness of a future dandy...
...interested in cutting their study time in half in order to raise their grades are referred to Franklin P. Dunn '39, of Eliot House, who has developed the system. Dunn uses a dictaphone and a secretarial bureau to keep his reading notes up to date...