Word: emeritus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convert last year's slight margin into a substantial sum. One of the most important problems to be decided is the feature for this year. The Red Book of 1935 chose the Yard as the subject for its chief article and the 1936 board discussed the administration of President-emeritus Lowell...
Died, James Arnold Lowell. 64, Federal district judge at Boston, cousin of Harvard's President-Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell; of pneumonia following erysipelas; at his home in Newton, Mass. Bostonians knew him as the white-thatched, twinkly-eyed jurist who wore flashy ties and waistcoats, waved to his friends from the bench, admitted Russian refugees into the U. S. and conscientious objectors to citizenship, called Uncle Sam a "sneaking cur" for letting Prohibition agents tap wires. The entire nation heard of him when he temporarily halted the extradition of a Negro charged with murder in Virginia on the ground...
Last week Harvard's famed President Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell found himself flanked in the news by Comedians Marie Dressier and Eddie Cantor. All three had been added to the board of ten producers and distributors whose duty it is to enforce the cinema code when it goes into effect this week. The choice of Marie Dressier and Eddie Cantor to represent the industry's performers was easy to understand. Comedian Dressier is a White House intimate of the Roosevelt family. Comedian Cantor visited Warm Springs last fortnight as representative of Hollywood's newly-formed Actors...
Twenty-four Lowell House members have been selected to constitute the cast of "Swastika und Veritas," the musical pageant to be presented Wednesday evening in the Lowell House dining room. The performance is part of the celebration in honor of the seventy-seventh birthday of President-Emeritus Lowell. In spite of the petition of the House members for his presence, Mr. Lowell has declined the invitation to attend the function. Dinner will be served at 6 o'clock, instead of at 7 o'clock, as it was previously announced...
...College men should make jobs, not seek them," said Dr. Thomas N. Carvor, professor emeritus of political economy at Harvard. "Men who are potential employers should be given every opportunity to start new businesses, instead of being driven into the mass of men seeking employment from existing enterprises. Laws which tend to discourage entrepreneurs should not be passed. The idea that a huge corporation like General Motors, employing thousands of men, should be the target for hostile legislation, thereby decreasing its ability to give employment and to expand is economically unsound...