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...least money; admen and manufacturers (2% and 9% respectively) make the most. There are men in the class who can do almost anything, says the class report, except "dig ditches, run an elevator, operate a lathe . . . repair a television set, press clothes, cobble a worn pair of shoes, or hoe the corn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Harvard '26 | 6/25/1951 | See Source »

...hoe committee which selected Tom Bolles originally would have preferred a Harvard graduate for the job, but the salary offered was not big enough to entice the proper men to leave their respective fields for a life in athletics. Various other reasons made other likely prospects impossible...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: Overseer Says Bolles Will Attempt to 'Sell Harvard' | 5/16/1951 | See Source »

...safe to say that none of them, any more than the rest of us, have swung a hoe in a paddy field or experienced the hatred of landlords ("feudalism") and foreign invaders ("imperialism") which has been the lot of so many of the Chinese people. Although we are much handicapped by the Communist news barrier and propagandas blackout, there are at least a few major points which can be kept in mind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fairbank Opposes Extending Conflict to China, Sees No Real Advantage in Bombing Manchuria | 5/9/1951 | See Source »

Then President Conant appointed an "ad hoe" committee which met once, made a recommendation, and dissolved. The "ad hoe" committee, unique to Harvard, has under ten members falling into three categories: Harvard professors from fields related to Government (in this case), Government professors from other institutions, and teaching laymen with a knowledge of government work. Conant presides without a vote at the committee meeting...

Author: By Frank B. Gilbert, | Title: Board of Overseers, Watchdog of University, Visits All Departments, Studies Complaints | 12/5/1950 | See Source »

...said Wilder, "have since then been living ad hoe, improvising...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Americans Still Lead Lives of Quiet Desperation, Thornton Wilder Says | 11/16/1950 | See Source »

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