Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brief picture of the Houses was provided by Elliott Perkins, Master of Lowell House, who was also an assistant dean during '29s freshman year at College. Noting that the famous Harvard taciturnity remains among today's youth, Perkins observed that, "You can lead two Harvard men together, but you still can't make them talk...
Aside from these few discomforts the '29ers landed on a college well trained to handle them. Dean Whitney '17 had just enlisted a group of recently-graduated proctors and had picked Elliott Perkins '23 as his first assistant dean. The CRIMSON added to their advice with its first "Confidential Guide to Freshman Courses," which covered about 40 courses normally open to the newcomers. The freshmen in financial trouble turned to Walter Daly '14 who announced average expenses would run between $900 and $1,200. All told, Harvard in the fall of 1925 greeted its new babes with open arms...
Statistics compiled by Elliott's staff, comparing summer and winter grade averages of Harvard Summer School students, reveal that eighty percent of the students receive summer grades neither a full grade higher not lower than their regular College averages. Of the remaining twenty percent, approximately half tallied lower marks in the summertime than in the remainder of the year. These figures would seem to indicate that instructors' doubts about the calibre of Summer School students are unfounded, Elliott said...
...mend under Spain's warm spring sun, Hemingway, planning to head for his Cuban home next month, had a welcome assurance for his readers: "The doctors said the head injury did not affect the section of the brain I use to write with." In Hollywood, Entrepreneur Elliott Roosevelt announced that, after rummaging through some old personal papers and other documents, he and a collaborator had reconstructed an original screenplay missing since 1923, when its author sent it to Paramount studios. It was called I Have Just Begun to Fight, a stirring film biography of Admiral John Paul Jones...
Lowell House, meanwhile, will stage its annual opera production on the All College Friday. Although there will be no planned dancing of any kind, Master Elliott Perkins '23 says parietal permissions will end at the customary...