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...290th commencement, Franklin Roosevelt, '04, last week told Harvard at the last moment that he could not make it. In his stead, he sent his military aide, Major General Edwin M. Watson. As "Pa" Watson sweltered on the commencement platform in a tight, white dress uniform, Harvardmen wondered why he was there. They found out. In a hot Cambridge, sultry with rumors, academic history was made...
...slipped behind a red velvet curtain on the platform. He soon reappeared in a gold-braided gown, with a page (ten-year-old Andrew Chaundy, son of an Oxford fellow) holding his train. Trailing him, in red, white & blue Oxford gowns, were a British delegation and a group of Harvardmen who had studied or taught at Oxford, among them Mr. Justice Felix Frankfurter. Lord Halifax, as Chancellor of Oxford University, took President Conant's chair and to the surprise of his audience opened an unprecedented Oxford convocation on foreign soil. The oldest U.S. university turned over its campus...
What's important about these boys, it seems to me, is the fact that they're giving Harvardmen a pretty good education in piano jazz. Their work is not a puerile brand of music which can be quickly dismissed, and at the same time it's sufficiently simple to arouse the interest of the tyro. Finally, it's been a very good build-up for what's going to happen tonight on the Network. Earl Hines will be down there from 7:30 to 8:00 (prior to doing a one-nighter at Paul Revere Hall). The "Father," who will...
...Snooperman"-for the mysterious person who turned books around on their shelves, thus hiding their titles (TIME, Jan. 27), but he was never identified. In February, 10,000 books were turned on the shelves of Boylston Library. After that, perpetration of the prank at Harvard dwindled and stopped, and Harvardmen, with final examinations in the offing, are doing their best to forget. Three weeks ago, however, a Snooperman turned some 24,000 books on the shelves of Seattle College Library in Seattle...
During the past forty years Phillips Brooks House has sent more than twelve thousand Harvardmen down to all types of Greater Boston social service settlements. Through this work Brooks House has contributed materially to the community's welfare and to the community's respect for the University. But there have been perrennial defects impairing the efficiency and scope of the enterprise. One of the major defects now seems possible of solution for the first time, with the advent of NYA aid at Harvard...