Word: lambing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Writing in the current "Nation" Mr. Robert K. Lamb, formerly an instructor in Economics here, declares in reference to the recent Walsh-Sweezy case "Once more Harvard has fumbled the ball. Once more the university, in its dismissal of two liberal economic instructors has exasperated its friends and delighted it critics by a clumsy substitution of one impracticable subterfuge for another" Amidst an angry undercurrent of rhetoric, Mr. Lamb moves laboriously on to make his final, crushing point. This it turns out, is that "Harvard has moved a long way to the right. Now a formation of a teachers' union...
Obviously there is nothing in this article that could annoy readers of the "Nation" since it is written as their editors demand all articles for publication in that biased, one-sided journal to be written. Filled as it is with innuendoes slurs, attacks on Overseers and the like, Mr. Lamb's little excursion into fancy is such as will delight those who are averse to looking into a simple administrative problem, simply and honestly...
...benefactors of the University were protesting the so-called "liberal" activity of Messers. Walsh and Sweezy becomes apparent when the political beliefs and activities of some other members of the Faculty are recalled. Surely Professor Frankfurter is not a man pleasing to the all-powerful Rightist oligarchy, which Mr. Lamb believes, controls the University policy. Certainly James M. Landis, Dean-designate of the Law School was not a man whom the "Wall Street bankers who now help administer Harvard's finances" would have chosen. The list of professors, and instructors of leanings decidedly to the Left of Center could...
Stating "once more Harvard has fumbled the ball," Robert Keen Lamb '28, former heard of the University, News Office and last year a member of the Economics Department, in an article, "Harvard Starves the Social Sciences", attacks University officials for the dismissal of Walsh and Sweezy...
...these surroundings. Perhaps such motives cause the murderer inevitably to return to the scene of his crime, or Hitler at the pinnacle of world power to indulge in painting during his leisure hours. Only those who have spent four years eating Mr.Westcott's prime ribs and ragout of lamb can comprehend the forces which drove to her present posient position the head waitress of one of our Houses, which for obvious reasons shall be nameless...