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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In 1880 a Dr. William Curran of Philadelphia left $50,000 to grow and accumulate in trust, to be given 50 years later as a "foundation for the education of females in or adjacent to Philadelphia." In 1930 this trust, now worth $50,000 a year, was applied for by...
World's Work made its great scoop in 1907, when Publisher Frank Doubleday induced John Davison Rockefeller Sr. to write his reminiscences in a series of six articles. It scored again in 1914. When the War broke out in August, Editor Arthur Page stopped the presses printing the September...
*Unkindest was the cut of L'Echo De Paris's famed "Pertinax" (Andre Geraud): "Mr. Hoover who is perhaps within a few months of political ruin ... is sticking at nothing to restore his fortunes." Japanese editors also struck the sour note that the President's proposals were mere electioneering. Icy...
This increase must be taken with a grain of salt. Fashion exerts its away in academic circles as in others, and as one department has awarded honors to a larger number of men, others have followed suit. Requirements for distinction are flexible. Nevertheless, the figures are actually indicative of a...
These are, however, essentially minor, if pressing considerations. What the House Plan has really done for the undergraduate can best be understood by first of all forgetting the misunderstood and unfortunate phrase, "Harvard cross-section." The plan, for one thing, has aided the realization of the athletics-for-all policy...