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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After its blithe trip into musical entertainment, the Harvard Dramatic Club faces the necessity of immediately reiterating its policy of producing honest dramas heretofore unseen in America, and wisely choses a little known play by a well-known playwright for its fall production. Milne is safe; he raises no over-serious moral issues--although it is hoped that "Success" may drive a few additional nails into the coffin of American Babbitry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "SUCCESS" IS PLEASANT BUT NOT REMARKABLE | 12/11/1929 | See Source »

...mind you, objecting to the principle behind the Harvard denizens' actions. But they should have known better. Live and let live. Did the Yale Record attempt to have the Harvard Lampoon punished for stealing the fence? Aren't we all the victims at times of the exorbitancy of bootleggers, ticket brokers, taxi drivers and, I well remember, stock markets? No doubt Yale is now laughing heartily at Harvard's expense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 12/10/1929 | See Source »

...Hanna, well-to-do wholesale grocer and ship owner, was born in New Lisbon, Ohio, in 1837. All his life Ohio was his empire. Until the Presidential campaign of 1896, when Bryan, the silver-tongued prophet of Free Silver, ran against Hanna's man McKinley, he was hardly known outside Ohio's borders. He worked at his father's grocery and shipping business until he had made a fortune out of it; married Charlotte Augusta Rhodes, daughter of Coal-and-Iron-King Daniel Rhodes, lost his fortune and went into partnership with his father-in-law. Soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lucky Hanna | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Among gifts made to several institutions by Chester DeWitt Pugsley, '86, vice-president of the Westchester County National Bank, of Peekskill, New York, 'was one, it became known yesterday, of $10,000 to the Harvard Law School, to be used for research in the codification of international law. Among the other recipients are Princeton University, Earlham College of Indiana, and the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. This is Pugsley's second gift to the Law School this year. On November 14, he established the John Harvey Gregory Trust, consisting of an initial grant of $400,000. Sixty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: C. W. PUGSLEY GIVES $10,000 TO LAW SCHOOL | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...same time it was made known has Joseph Warren '97, who became Bussey Professor of Law in 1919, has been elected Weld Professor of Law and that Edmund Morris Morgan '02, professor of Law at the Harvard Law School since 1925, succeeds to the Bussey Professorship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

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