Word: historians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Samuel E. Morison '07, professor of History, was announced yesterday as the principal speaker at the Commencement exercises of Radcliffe College on June 25. Official historian of Harvard, Morison is best known for his "History of Harvard", written for the Tercentenary celebration...
...unfortunate, I believe, to see such an eminent historian as Professor Langer, fall below his usual standard of clear-thinking in his recent article on "The Revival of Imperialism" appearing in the March Issue of the "Harvard Guardian". Professor Langer says, that "it has been shown over and over again and proved to the hilt with statistics that colonies are not a paying proposition." Does Professor Langer or anybody else suppose that colonies would be sought, and when acquired, maintained, if they were NOT paying propositions? Does anybody hang on to a hot potato, if it is burning his hand...
...Bill" Macaulay first met the Bradys when he was a career diplomat in the British Civil Service. Born of a good Irish county family (no kin to British Historian Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lord Macaulay), he transferred to the Irish Free State service when it was set up in 1924 was sent to Washington as secretary, later became counsellor at the Free State Legation. Dark-haired, affable, fond of bridge, Counsellor Macaulay was popular in the quiet set of Mrs. Lawrence Townsend in Washington, sometimes saw-Mrs. Brady at parties. In 1930 he was appointed Free State Consul General in Manhattan...
...business of growing plants in water is centuries old. Long before the Christian era it was believed that plants got all their sustenance from water. In 1699 a natural historian named John Woodward grew spearmint, potatoes and vetch in water from springs and rivers. First experiments which involved adding nutrient chemicals to the water are credited to a German named Knop (1859). Growing commercial crops in water is another matter. At Berkeley, Dr. Gericke aimed at producing tank crops which would economically compete with or surpass soil-grown crops. So successful was he that several California vegetable and flower growers...
...late Henry Parkman, and grandson if Dr. Samuel Parkman, first cousin of Francis Parkman, the famous historian, Senator Parkman's brother, Francis, is headmaster of Saint Mark's School...