Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Again I say isn't there some little old kid game Harvard could learn to play...
...Since Harvard turned itself into a Communist university along with the University of Chicago and Columbia. Harvard Alumni are pretty disgusted with it. It may furnish a Communist President and a Communist member of the Supreme Court and a lot of other government Communists but it can't play the American game of Football or any other truly American thing...
...dinner the speakers were Zechaviah Chafee, Jr., Laugdell Professor of Law: George H. Chase '96, John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology and Dean of the University: Charles N. Fay '69; and Harlow Shapley. Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the Harvard College Observatory. Learned Hand '93. Judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, served as teastmaster...
Novel and refreshing, judging by standards now in vogue, are the theories of teaching outlined by the poet Robert Frost in a recent interview with the press. Mr. Frost, who is conducting a weekly class at Harvard this year, holds no brief for stereotyped spoon-fed education. He states frankly that for him education is a take-it- or-leave-it affair in which he will "just keep silent, or even lie down on the desk until it is realized that what I want is self-starters, not followers of a set routine...
...understood that Russell, dignified by the title of Assistant to the President of the University, will travel extensively, making contacts with educators and establishing Harvard's position in the market for academic talent...