Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...descendants of pioneer California farmers have become effete, hence impoverished, hence embittered, Hope for a Harvest uses a vigorous, high-spirited woman (Florence Eldridge) who returns home, after 20 years in Europe, to whip her tired kinfolk into action. She succeeds immoderately: not only does her favorite cousin Elliott (well played by Actor March) regain his faith and flex his muscles, but his daughter slides out of a mess with the wrong man into marriage with the right one, and a neighborhood feud blossoms into a very pretty friendship...
Parts may be written in for House Master Elliott Perkins, History lecturer and Tutors Barnaby C. Koeney and Richard French, Instructor in History and teaching fellow in Music. Leonard Kent '43 is director; William Green '42, assistant director; Rolland Thompson '42, set designer; and Tutor French, writer of the score...
Headed by William Y. Elliott, professor of Government, the roster of speakers included Overton H. Taylor, lecturer in Economics, Charles Kiefer of the Department of Agriculture studying on a Littauer Fellowship, and Edward Ames '42, president of the Harvard Liberal Union...
Speaking before a crowd of about 100 persons, Professor Elliott pointed out that: "We are living today in a state that somewhat approaches feudalism in our great corporations and labor unions." He went on to state: "It's not from a strong democratic government that we have to fear, but from a weak one." "If you want documentation of this fact," he added, "look at Europe...
Amplifying the remarks of Professor Elliott, Taylor asserted that "Growth of government in a society can increase liberties, at least so long as each new government interference can remove greater private interference...