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George J. Fenney '50, president of Harvard Yearbook Publications, was commissioned last summer by Dean Bender to take over the '49 book and complete its publication. Feeney, who will draw a salary, said yesterday that the Album would probably be out by Thanksgiving...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Feeney Plans Release of '49 Album In Fall | 9/1/1950 | See Source »

...Album may yet end in the black, Feeney said, but it is likely, however, that the '49 book, like all of its recent predecessors, will wind up with a deficit of at least several hundred dollars. Its immediate predecessor, the combined 1947-1948 Class Album, lost over $5,000 but the 1946 Album was only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Feeney Plans Release of '49 Album In Fall | 9/1/1950 | See Source »

Such controversial material is hard to criticize. It has been my job to report on Father Feeney for the CRIMSON since he first made the newspapers a year ago last April. During that time I have heard him repeat his beliefs over and over again as Mrs. Clarke must have, for Father Feeney's exact phraseology frequently appears in the book. The book accurately presents Father Feeney's side of the controversy; I can make no other value judgments about...

Author: By Brenton WELLING Jr., | Title: THE BOOKSHELF | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

...remaining grounds for criticism of "The Loyolas and the Cabots" are stylistic. I have heard people say Father Feeney is probably the real author of the book. I doubt this because it is not well written. Parts of it are, it is true, written in clear sentences constantly referring to Scripture. This style of writing is difficult to master; it has been used by theologians since the early days of the Roman Catholic Church. The Father may have had a hand in these passages...

Author: By Brenton WELLING Jr., | Title: THE BOOKSHELF | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

...author has taken the famous old poem concerning Boston "Where the Lowells speak only to Cabots, and the Cabots speak only to God," and substituted Loyolas for Lowells "with more than unsatisfactory results." The second occurs in the last paragraph of the book. It depicts the students and Father Feeney studying "The Doctors, Popes, and Saints of the Church with a longing for the day when a newsboy will be heard running down from Harvard Square, with headlines in his hand and a shout in his voice: 'EXTRA! EXTRA! EXTRA! EXTRA! ECCLESLAM NULLA SALUS...

Author: By Brenton WELLING Jr., | Title: THE BOOKSHELF | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

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