Word: gras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three new men, all graduates of colleges other than Harvard, will assume professorships in the Harvard Graduate School of Business next September. They are Norman Scott Brien Gras, Howard Thompson Lewis, and Auton de Haas...
Professor Gras, who will become Professor of Business History at the Harvard Business School next September, graduated from Western University, Canada, in 1906, and received his A.M. and his Ph.D. from Harvard. He taught at Clark College and was for two years a lecturer at Harvard. Soon after becoming an Associate Professor at Clark University, Professor Gras went to the University of Minnesota as Professor or Economic History, which chair he now holds...
...century later, on the same day, Shrove Tuesday-a week ago-half a million people crowded into the town to participate in Mardi Gras (fat Tuesday) with the definite purpose in mind of having a good time. Out of that picturesque escapade a hundred years ago has emerged the serious business of celebrating its anniversary. Pink-cheeked Iowans with Happy Hooligan hat complexes are frantically chased through the crowds by corpulent wives arrayed as Madame Gump...
...there should be no mistaking the ponderous esteem in which the city's gentility hold Mardi Gras. To receive the precious envelope with a little number in one corner is to be touched by Fortune for some girls and not to receive it is vexatious humiliation to others, for only those who have the little numbers may dance with Maskers. The old aristocracy does not forget the relative importance of the various clubs: Comus, the oldest, Atlanteans, Momus, Twelfth Night, Mystics, a score of others, nor does it become too freely intrigued with street processionals...
...French Quarter, the Vieux Carre, was originally the city itself. Its dignity, its gayety and especially its Mardi Gras carnival have made New Orleans one of the storied cities of the U.S. Hither came adventurers from Latin Europe, from Latin America. Here endured an Old World culture exotic and attractive. The old quarter still persists between Canal Street and the river-its narrow streets, its weather-beaten, balconied homes and stores. But the oldtimers, the French and Spanish, have been-crowded out of late. Other Latins have replaced them, the Italians who have gone into trade and commission marketing...