Word: harrington
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...list of patronesses, while Richard Harte, Jr. will lead the ushers. Assisting Harte as ushers will be James M. Aldrich, Jr., William O. Apthorp, Charles M. Clark, Thomas P. Cutler, James C. Dudley, Roger D. Fisher, Thomas R. Goethals, Jr., Morris Gray, Thomas Hadley, Jr., George H. Hackett, Michael Harrington, Jr., Maxwell Kaufer, Caleb Loring, Jr., John W. Morgan, Charles S. Putnam, Julian H. Richardson, Peter B. Saltonstall, Roger Smith, George H. Warren, and Richard K. Winslow...
However, in regard to our work, you have the matter backwards. I should not like to leave anyone with the impression that Dr. Harrington and I, or any other scientists, had undertaken anything so fantastic as inventing a new native language, or a variant on an existing...
...alphabet for recording the Navajo language-a competent language, incidentally, with a large vocabulary. The alphabet, worked out by scientists, was minutely accurate in catching every sound and intonation, but contained so many odd characters, special marks and accents as to be utterly unusable for ordinary purposes. Dr. Harrington and I were asked to work out an alphabet in which Navajo could be written understandably, using only what is to be found on the keyboard of a standard typewriter...
That afternoon Secretary Early recalled this statement as hasty, said that Works Projects Commissioner F. C. Harrington would instead present the situation informally to House committeemen...
Thereupon the Office of Indian Affairs created a new Navajo language. Its authors: Novelist-Ethnologist Oliver (Laughing Boy) La Farge and Smithsonian Institution's Dr. John P. Harrington. The new language used the English alphabet, created words which resembled the scientists' jargon and the Navajos' vernacular closely enough so that both sides could make head & tail of them. Last week posters drawn by Navajo artists and designed to teach Navajos the language by means of pictures and text (see cut) were displayed all over the reservation. Passed around in Navajo classrooms was the first Navajo primer...