Word: jasper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first semester; officers for one year; president, Henry S. Thompson, '99; vice-president, Austin W. Scott, '37; secretary, Waltor Humphreys; and treasurer, John L. Taylor; other directors for one year, Delmar Leighton, Dean of Freshmen, and Professor Alfred C. Redfield, representing Harvard at Large; Horace S. Ford and Jasper Whiting, representing MIT at Large; Professor Clinton P. Biddle, representing the Harvard Faculty; Professor Kenneth B. Murdock, representing the Harvard Alumni; Henry Elwood Koontz, representing MIT; and Robert S. Playfair, '36; Charles C. Gibson '37 and Francis Keppel '38, representing their respective classes...
...Oregon statesmen decided to end the long, bitter rivalry between University of Oregon at Eugene and Oregon State Agricultural College at Corvallis by lumping them with the State's three normal schools in one big happy family. Their curious method of furthering this pacification was to appoint William Jasper Kerr, longtime President of Oregon State, to be Chancellor of the new setup...
Last week three professors employed respectively by California, Washington and Stanford Universities informed the people of Oregon that their Chancellor of Higher Education, William Jasper Kerr, was totally incapable of educational leadership, that his election was a "stupendous blunder" in the first place, that their State University would never have a "healthy and normal life" until they got rid of him. This blast, a monstrous piece of impertinence on its face, was delivered by the three professors as representatives of that extraordinary organization, the American Association of University Professors...
That Drood was murdered by Jasper is the theory projected in most of the eight books, five plays and 80 articles that have been written on the subject since Dickens died in 1870. That verdict was handed down in 1914 after a literary mock trial at which Gilbert Keith Chesterton was judge, George Bernard Shaw a juror. A notable dissident, however, is Stephen Leacock. This humorist and McGill University economist believes that for Drood to be murdered is too obviously unmysterious. According to Dickensian Leacock, Drood managed to escape a murderous assault by Jasper, but the choirmaster, in an opium...
...ending concocted for Universal by four scenarists including John L. Balderston (Berkeley Square) is somewhat obvious, the picture is nevertheless thoroughly entertaining, full of Mid-Victorian atmosphere, good acting, and Dickensian makeup. (The cast used 2,200 lb. of grease paint and false hair.) Startling shot: Jasper and Durdles being stoned by an urchin named Deputy who squeals: Winnie-winnie...