Word: latters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...roar of the ventilating apparatus in the upper lecturer room and the Library is so loud as to prove a distraction in the latter and even to drown out a low-voiced lecturer in the former, while the air in the upstairs room seems to benefit not at all from the uproar when a large course such as Fine Arts 9a is in session...
...lack of knowledge and at least give the advisee a clear conception of what will be expected of him. The possibilities of co-operation with the work of the Alumni Appointments Office in such work are obvious and would add greatly to the value of the results of the latter body...
...ability to take charge of the new organization. The comprehensive powers they would require of such an executive appear rather incompatible with the "nominal salary" suggested, but the need for a capable man to fill the position is so essential that means could undoubtedly be found to eliminate the latter requirement. The need is a real one, for even if it is not found to be possible to discover an exact work for which the doubting Senior is fitted, some such arrangement as the report offers would be invaluable in giving him the materials for making his own decision...
...contempt of sentimental gushings and impassioned pleas for bigger and better foreign relations, the solid economic and political significance of tolerance and understanding are too often underestimated. On this latter ground the fanfare of student voyages, international Schools, and even the schoolboy correspondence in French, find a justification. Meanwhile the position occupied by Harvard in foreign eyes, offers to a much greater degree the opportunity for utilizing such contact. With this in mind the University should take a certain pride in playing a part, even if subordinate to the local Rotary Club...
...York and set up in the tin plate and metal business. One of his six children, Melissa, married William Earle Dodge who was a dry goods merchant. In the 1830's Phelps persuaded his son-in-law to join him in establishing Phelps, Dodge & Co. This latter company was extinguished only in 1917 when it merged with its subsidiary, the Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Co. to become the Phelps Dodge Corp. During all this time it has remained under the management of Anson G. Phelps' descendants: William Earle Dodge (junior), his grandson, Cleveland Hoadley Dodge, his great-grandson...