Word: lamont
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...being realiged. Probably the most unusual of the presentations were numerous rolls of tissue paper, which were indignantly returned by the upper-classmen. Cheers were given for the more philanthropic members of the Freshman Class after they had contributed dollar bills, and according to an announcement by Corliss Lamont, the class treasurer, a special meeting of the Class Committee will be held today to consider making two unusually generous Freshmen who each gave five dollars, honorary members of the class...
...Lamont was particularly caustic in commenting on what he considered the poor showing of the class of 1927, since $100 more was realized by last year's Senior class, but he believes that the class of 1924 will be greatly enriched as a result of the donation of 1,910,000 German marks. According to the 1924 financial statistician, there is an excellent chance of the mark "coming back" before the Twenty-fifth Anniversary, and the marks will be put in a strong box until that time...
...Professor Charles Homer Haskins A.M. '08, who recently resigned from the position of Dean of the Graduates School of Arts and Sciences. The committee as it now stands is composed o. Professor Haskins. Professor Bliss Perry,. C. P. Fordyce '23, Secretary to the Governing Board of the Union, Corliss Lamont '24, chairman of the Undergraduate Committee, and F. A. O. Schwarz...
...probably show as little interest in the future as it has in the past: the audiences that will turn out to listen to Mr. Debs or Mr. Nearing will be as curious and as immune to permanent radical influence as the crowd that greeted "Red" Doran in 1921. Mr. Lamont seems to forget that this is not a girls' school; that there is here no great body of persons who are emotionally starved and lacking in attachment to material interests; that there are so many outlets for excess energy and emotion in Cambridge and vicinity that the real interest...
This initial attempt at direct action on the part of Mr. Lamont and his coherts might well be reconsidered if the pacifists expect to exert any real influence on student thought. R. S. FANNING...