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...upperclass London this tag now designates Lieut. Colonel the Right Honorable Sir Samuel John Gurney Hoare, Bart., of No. 18 Cadogan Gardens; and a very short search at the Foreign Office would discover "The Man Who Was Wrong" in upperclass eyes, Captain the Right Honorable Robert Anthony Eden, today His Majesty's Principal Secretary...
George Lyman Kittredge '32, Gurney Professor of English Literature Emeritus, won recognition at Union College while Elmer D. Merrill, Professor of Botany, was similarly honored by the University of California...
...throughout the winter by Sherwin-Williams Co. (paint). Basso Norman Cordon, a towering North Carolinian, was impressive as the ill-used father when he pronounced his curse on Rigoletto, did even better as the ludicrous circus manager in The Bartered Bride. In Rigoletto the swashbuckling assassin was Baritone John Gurney of Jamestown, N. Y., who took up music after Harvard Business School. Marie's mother in the Smetana opera was Lucelle Browning from Durham, N. C., a product of the Juilliard School of Music...
When, at 11 o'clock this morning, George Lyman Kittredge '82, Gurney professor of English Literature, "Kitty" to many Harvard generations, picks up his books and papers from the platform desk in Harvard 6, and, lecturing all the while to his English 22 class, walks slowly down the aisle, it will mark the end of an era in American scholarship...
...rock right through one of the Master's prize windows. First came the pleasant tinkling of broken glass; then the awful silence that follows catastrophes; and finally the horrible roar of the outraged being within. Ten seconds later the front door flew open and out thundered Roger Bigelow Merriman, Gurney Professor of History and exalted Master of Eliot House, brandishing his cane like the bloody brand of Rollo. The little lad turned pale and fled for the river, but Sir Roger, undaunted, steamed after him in hot pursuit, and, reaching out with the crook of his cane, hooked...