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...farm, William Crapo Durant was introducing mass production to the buggy business. What passed for Vision in those days was astigmatism to Durant. He crashed the gas buggy business in 1904 by taking over Buick; in 1908 he combined Buick, Oakland and Oldsmobile into General Motors. When Lee. Higginson and the Seligmans manipulated him out of it, he went after Ford with Chevrolet, in which he manipulated himself back into control of General Motors in 1916. Fatally entranced by the stockmarket, William Durant lost his General Motors shirt ($120,000,000) in 1920. The Durant car, with which he planned...
...members of the Class of 1910 were both "Jack Reed," the journalist who merited a grave in Moscow, and our conservative Congressman, Mr. Hamilton Fish. Look at some of the Harvard non-conformisas of the past--Theodore Parker, Henry D. Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Wendell Phillips, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, James Russell Lowell--abolitionists, religious heretics, champions of women's rights. All were pioneers in a hostile land, yet leaders of movements which today are universally approved. The training of such independent thought is the goal of true education. Ralph Waldo Emerson once said: "I have so small a following because...
Nevertheless the great Manhattan banking houses of issue through which these debentures had been sold-old Lee, Higginson & Co., old Guaranty Co. of New York, old City Co. of New York-clung to the belief that when Mr. Kreuger had said "secured" he meant, in this instance, "secured." They staffed and supported the protective committee of Mr. Murphy and another formed by Bainbridge Colby and Samuel Untermeyer. These committees sent lawyers to Stockholm, verified the existence of collateral for the debentures, petitioned the Supreme Court of Massachusetts to appoint for its safekeeping a New York trustee. They fought the claims...
...already listened this year to Charles Cestre, exchange professor from the University of Paris; John L. Lowes '05, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature; Theodore Spencer, instructor in English; and Willard L. Sperry, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Professor of Homiletics...
Opinion among the faculty yesterday differed. A representative group reached by telephone claimed that they would sign the bill, but do it under protest. A few came out flatly against the oath. Wilbur C. Abbott, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, stated that all the members of the History Department to whom he had spoken would sign the bill under compulsion, but that there would probably be a petition from the Department against...