Word: latters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile in Boston, before the giant Dartmouth game, a bellhop at the Big Green dance was overheard to say that Dartmouth students were more generous and better dancers than the Harvards, though the latter showed greater signs of sobriety than the invaders from Hanover. The Indians crushed Harvard on the gridiron the next afternoon...
Harvard Statutes provide that while serving in the latter capacity he "shall have charge of investments of the University, and except as the Corporation with the consent of the Overseers shall by vote from time to time otherwise direct, shall have charge and administration of the finances of the University...
From then on, the rapid enrichment of the University paralleled that of the nation. While aiding the latter magnificently, Hancock had failed in his unintentional efforts to thwart the former. Harvard's investments climbed to over half a million dollars by 1830, to over a million by the outbreak of the Civil War, and to over ten million at the turn of the century...
...delay is his lot in life. He is called to walk through his part-while the babble of voices goes steadily on-and is dismissed to wait some more. He is called back to pose and turn while a man with a light meter goes over him like some latter-day Holmes peering through a magnifying glass. He is cornered by a harried female in slacks, who stares at him in distaste and pats his nose with a powder puff...
...first lecture foundation in the country devoted to elementary education problems, the new program will complement the Alexander J. Inglis Lectureship in Secondary Education, which has gone to a leader in that field since 1924. The latter honors a former professor at the School of Education...