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...popular lecturer, Santayana's courses became famed. His students included T. S. Eliot, Conrad Aiken, Walter Lippmann, Bronson Cutting, Felix Frankfurter. Robert Benchley attended his classes, said that he could not understand the words but that the music fascinated him. Continuing to live in isolation, Santayana was commonly considered snobbish. Disliking Boston society, he called it "a Harvard faculty meeting without any business." Although he enjoyed teaching, described it as "a delightful paternal art," he admitted disliking ''the taste of academic straw," was ironically amused when President Lowell declared that he was not interested in the degree...
...before Herbert Hoover spoke at Lincoln two newshawks strolled in to see Chester Davis, Administrator of the late AAA. One was James Russell Wiggins, correspondent of the St. Paul Pioneer Press, the other Felix Belair Jr. of the New York Times. Mr. Davis poured his woes into their ears...
...such as "Macky" or "Jonesy." He Promptly puts things on a "clubby" basis and "the invitation to take a drink with him after 5 o'clock is a prelude to a dinner invitation and sometimes more." A particularly obnoxious executive, usually over 35 and "happily married," is called "Felix the Feeler" because he cannot keep his hands off female flesh...
...Courts and Administrative Law-the Experience of the English Housing Legislation" is the subject of a treatises by Ivoo Jennings, of the London School of Economic and Political Sciences. Felix Frankfurter, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law, has written a foreword for this article...
...surveyed the field and laid out a curriculum, Harvard will appoint a dean and three professors, probably open the school in September 1937. Founder Littauer charged the University especially to find "a dean of high abilities, energy and courage." An obvious question last week was whether it could overlook Felix Frankfurter, whose young proteges in Washington are the nearest U. S. approach to the British Civil Service. Since Professor Frankfurter and his "Happy Hot Dogs'' are cordially disliked and distrusted by Republicans, businessmen and most Harvardmen, a good guess was that Harvard will find a way of overlooking...