Word: harvardized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Montreal with three stenographers bustled I. P. & P.'s stocky thick-lipped president, Archibald Robertson Graustein, onetime infant prodigy, brilliant Harvard scholar (TIME, April 29). Newsprint at $60 the ton was impossible! President Graustein had columns of figures at the tip of his tongue. Speaking with the authority of a half-billion-dollar corporation, he was ready to prove his point. A spur to his arguments was the uncomfortable fact that I. P. & P. had a four-year contract to supply Publisher William Randolph Hearst with newsprint at a price range of $50 to $55 a ton, and breaking...
...Harvard's peripatetic Harlow Shapley (TIME, Dec. 2) addressed the American Geographical Society in Manhattan last week. Usually he has his keen intelligence among the stars. For last week's occasion he directed it into the earth. He proposed, as has many another with less public attention, to establish scientific laboratories deep beneath the land surface. The deepest man-made hole in the world is in Orange County, Cal., 8,201 ft. deep. The deepest mine in the world is St. John del Rey in the stage of Minas Geraes, Brazil, about 7,200 ft. down, where toiling...
Movies of the celebrated class of 1899 in action will be shown at the annual class dinner at the Harvard Club on December 11 at 6.30 0'clock. Alumni of this class from distant points are expected to be present, many of them bringing their sons as guests. The late Percy Haughton, and Mayor Nichols were both members of this class. H. H. Fish is treasurer and Arthur Adams secretary of the class...
...collaboration with Professor A. N. Whitehead, now of Harvard, under whom he studied mathematics at Cambridge University, England, Russell wrote the "Principia Mathematics", a work advancing the proposition that logic and mathematics, can be united into a single science...
...following article on "President Hoover and Prohibition" was written for the Harvard Crimson by Thomas Nixon Carver, David A. Wells Professor of political economy...