Word: harvardized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...owners ordered the Commission to prepare a nation-wide plan for consolidation. The carriers were then weak and shaky after Federal operation. It was argued that consolidation would link the strong with the weak, eliminate wasteful competition, put all roads on a profitable basis. Professor William Zebina Ripley of Harvard produced for the Commission a merger plan in 1921 which caused such dissension that it was quickly junked. Vainly the Commission wrestled with the Congressional order, made no apparent progress. Impatient at the delay, some roads (Nickel Plate, Baltimore & Ohio, Northern Pacific) brought in voluntary merger plans only to have...
James A. ("Bud") Stillman Jr., who married Backwoods Girl Lena Wilson at his mother's famed camp at Grande Anse, Que. (TIME, Aug. 8, 1927), is studying medicine at Harvard Medical School. Last week his wife told the press this story: ''Bud rescued a poor crippled boy who was being tormented by a crowd of other boys. He took an interest in the boy and tried to rehabilitate him by psychoanalysis. He was half starved. Bud fed him and was kind to him. At first he was suspicious, for nobody ever had been kind to him really...
This polymorphous streptococcus is the changeable germ which Harvard's great hygienist Milton Joseph Rosenau told an American Medical Association Convention 13 years ago was probably the cause of many baffling infections...
...fewer and fewer people read Greek, translations of the Greek classics become more valuable. This latest Englishing of what is generally considered Homer's better half should win the Odyssey many new readers, should remind many old acquaintances to read it again. Professor Emeritus (Harvard) George Herbert Palmer's translation of the wandering of Odysseus is in prose, but faithful to the letter and spirit of Homer's rolling pentameters...
...discipline. It was Mr. O's pride that Pomfret boys have more than held their own among boys from bigger schools both in studies and athletics. The most unusual mind (Schuyler B. Jackson. 1922) that Princeton has had in years was awakened at Pomfret. Yale's Mallory and Harvard's Buell were Pomfret bred footballers of recent fame. From Pomfret to Harvard went a great stroke oar, George Appleton; for Pomfret, like Kent, is one of the few rowing schools...