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...doubted that President Lowell, an able political scientist,* held scholarship in high regard. Almost his last official act was to establish a Society cf Fellows wherein 24 young superscholars may seek knowledge free from academic or financial care. But thoughtful Harvardmen began to grow uneasy as the Lowell regime lengthened. Columbia was drawing ahead in this department, Chicago in that, Wisconsin in another. Old Harvard faculty giants-Royce, James, Palmer, Norton, Santayana-were dead or retired. Kittredge, Lowes, Copeland, Hocking, Perry were getting on. Where were the men to replace them? President Lowell retired with that question unanswered...
Harvard University entered its 298th year with Dr. James Bryant Conant as new president. This year Harvardmen will save some $110,000 on room & board, the University having reduced rates. Last week Harvard announced that Poet-Scholar Laurence Binyon, deputy keeper of the British Museum, would succeed Poet Thomas Stearns Eliot in the famed Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry. One of the 1,000-odd freshmen registering at Harvard last week was Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. who arrived with a bodyguard. The freshmen were greeted by Charles Francis Adams. Harvard overseer who counseled: "To be a success you must...
Five thousand persons watched various outdoor sports at West Point last Saturday but no one watched a dozen cadets and 13 Harvardmen hunched in a West Point classroom, engaged in an abstruse brain contest. The teams were to solve ten out of eleven problems posed by President Arnold Dresden of the Mathematical Association of America. The size of the teams did not matter-the side which produced the ten best sets of answers would win. First day the teams worked over such easy matters as how many times two integral calculi go into four differential calculi. They quit early...
...Harvardmen were unimpressed. New college tutorial plans and reading periods (before examinations) have cut into the crammer's trade. And Harvard's most famed crammery died with William Whiting ("Widow") Nolen in 1923. Graduated from Harvard in 1884 (summa cum laude), "Widow" Nolen left to Harvard his fine collection of Lincolniana, as well as $36,000 to a Miss Beseley of Brattle Street. Harvard's Nolen, like Yale's Samuel B. ("Rosie") Rosenbaum and Princeton's John Hun, represented the highest type of crammer, but of them all it might have been written...
...something that no others did. Before each game some of them would assemble with their Captain William Barry Wood Jr. and jab sharp needles into their thumbs or earlobes. Drops of crimson Harvard blood were smeared on slides. During the game and afterwards, the same thing would happen. Most Harvardmen knew that Captain Wood, quarterback. Phi Beta Kappa, student council president, first marshal of the Class of 1932, was plugging away at biochemistry, studying for medical school, working a good part of his time in the Harvard Fatigue Laboratory. He wrote a thesis which won him summa cum laude honors...