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...patronesses are as follows: Mrs. Roger Pierce, head patroness, and the Mesdames N. S. Bartlett, Arthur Beane, Cornelius Bliss, Charles Breed, Trowbridge Callaway, Donald Cutler, Henry Chauncey, Philip Dalton, Joseph Davis, Samuel Drury, G. F. Ducey, A. C. Hanford, Dana Hardwick, A. E. Hindmarsh, DeLancey Jay, Shaun Kelly, Henry Keyes, William Lane, Delmar Leighton, Charles Locke, Matthew Luce, George McFadden, S. G. Mortimer, F. R. Moseley, Potter Palmer, John Pratt, J. O. Proctor Hampden Robb, Chandler Robbins, J. D. Sawyer, S. D. Warren, Lawrence Waterbury, P. B. Weld, Barrett Wendell, and S. H. Wolcott...
Died. Bernard ("Buddy") Hanford. 22, No. 6 U. S. jockey in 1932 (146 winners); of a multiple skull fracture, after a stumbling mount (Mrs. F. Ambrose Clark's Apprehensive) threw him under the hoofs of the field in the sixth race at Baltimore's Pimlico track...
...with that solemn diffidence becoming to solitary interpretations of Olympian dicta, that one ventures to place an original construction on Dean Hanford's affidavit in re the evil of tutoring bureaus. If, however, temerity be not forbidden and the impressions of that temerity be not vain, one is tempted to suggest that the two humorous undergraduate publications look to their laurels. Youth has been quick to appraise and to emulate the form if not the substance of the diversion common to distraught journalists, hapless explorers, and brilliant financiers. To the hoax it has brought the charm of unflagging devotion...
...Dean Hanford, it appears, has looked to the substance. If, for example, students continue to patronize the widow, it may become necessary to abolish the reading periods, "which would be a great loss to the college as a whole." There is, further, a subtle irony. Establishments which depend for their daily bread on the fact that the measure of a Harvard man's scholastic achievement is taken almost entirely from his ability to sling ink into blue books and which gravy that bread by clinging to the pragmatic belief that the stupidity of examination questions varies little from year...
...abridgements is subversive to the aims of the higher education; the policy of Harvard, however, and of other large universities, has been to allow the undergraduate to decide for himself just how much he will put into his work, so long as his grades are reasonably good. Dean Hanford's argument against the methods of the Bureau is, in this case, a well-founded one, from a theoretical standpoint; from the point of view of practice, it is useless, for even if the court in this particular instance should be swayed by it, the tutoring establishments will continue their ways...