Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Law School's Story Professor of Law, T. Reed Powell, doubtless feels honored by your attributing to Mr. Justice Holmes Mr. Powell's sly jest as to Mr. Justice Butler's feelings about the procreation of imbeciles in perpetuity [TIME, Nov. 27]. Romantic legends certainly have gathered round Holmes's name; but even a casual reading of his opinion in Buck v. Bell and of Mr. Powell's digest thereof in his Police Power essays, published-as I recall-in the Virginia Law Review, will uncover the source of this...
Theodore H. White is a 24-year-old Harvard graduate with short legs, freckled face, cocky eyes, indomitable spirit, a compassion for suffering people, and a curiosity which would cost a cat all nine of its lives in no time. At Harvard he sold newspapers to keep himself in shirts, tooted a trumpet to keep himself in spirits, and did just enough studying to keep himself in the top 20 of his class...
When he graduated he was awarded the Sheldon Prize Fellowship-$1,500 for a year's travel outside the U. S. He had looked forward to China: he had studied Chinese at Harvard, and he wanted to see what war is like. What he saw made him chuck traveling and go straight to work for the Chinese Government as a translator and writer in the Ministry of Information. Recently he realized the importance of Shansi Province in North China warfare, became impatient with meagre reports which were drifting out, and so decided to go and see for himself...
...with Professor Buros. Nevertheless, the professor was almost ready to publish a second yearbook. This time, instead of 133 experts he had 245, among them such famed testers and educators as University of London's Charles Spearman, Yale's Edward S. Noyes, Iowa's Carl Seashore, Harvard's Charles Swain Thomas, University of Chicago's Ralph W. Tyler...
...Crimson will have another chance to get back on the winning track again when a strong B. U. team invades the Indoor Athletic Building tonight. The Terriers lost to Harvard last year in one of the closest games of the year, as the Feslermen came from behind in the closing minutes to close up a gap in the score...