Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dick Knight was a Texas boy, with a big body, big head, and big ideas about getting on in the world. He went north to study law at Harvard. In 1924, armed with a degree and a recommendation from Felix Frankfurter (now an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States), he headed for Manhattan. Two things he wanted. One was money. The other: to be known and admired by everybody who was anybody in the Big City...
When Earl Browder, No. 1 U. S. Communist, talked at Yale last year, only 268 undergraduates turned out to hear him. But last week Comrade Browder had what pressagents know as "a buildup." Harvard, Princeton and Dartmouth had barred him. New Haven American Legionnaires had bellowed at tolerant Yale President Charles Seymour for not barring him. All this set the stage for more fun than Yale men had had since old George Gundelfinger issued his first tract (in 1923) on "Why the Bulldog Is Losing His Grip...
...Harvard dormitory was Stone & Kimball's first office. Herbert Stuart Stone, described as a "martinet" in appearance, an "exquisite" in taste, was the son of the founder-editor of the Chicago Daily News...
...University lecturer who "may deliver occasional lectures" is a rather extraordinary individual. When that lecturer is a director of the British Broadcasting Corporation--an integral part of the wartime "Office of Information"--and has been given a Harvard title "under a special grant", there are grounds for healthy scepticism...
...surface, Harvard stands only to gain by this appointment. Essential in the long range campaign for better public relations are interesting radio broadcasts. Faculty dissertations on the "Effect of Income Fluctuations on the Marginal Propensity to Consume" may serve a purpose, but hardly that of making new friends for Harvard. Mr. Siepmann, who has been prominent in the realm of adult education, can be of great assistance. And the Radio Workshop could obviously ask for no better guide and tutor...