Word: lee
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Joseph Butterworth, another of the ousted professors, will speak to the meeting of the Harvard Teachers' Union at 1 p.m. today in Young Lee's Restaurant. He will speak on academic freedom in general, and the Washington case in particular...
Like an oriental potentate who has beheaded all of his viziers, iron-fisted Sewell Lee Avery sat last week in lonely splendor in his paneled throne room at Chicago's Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc. For one day along the hushed executive corridors he could knock on any door and find no one at home. In Ward's top command, everyone else had quit. There was nobody left but old Sewell, who had once said: "I'll be here until I'm six feet under...
Also Bruce Harriman, C. Lee Hoefinghoff, James F. Hornig, Frederic D. Houghteling, Richard W. Kimball, Hale M. Knight, Robert B. Lukingbeal, William D. Mulholland, Jr., Charles A. O'Brien, Walter B. Rauschenbush, and Lyle H. Ritchie...
Today, with its stately colonnaded campus, W. & L. is essentially the college Lee planned. Its 1,200 students like it that way. The "minks" (as W. & L. students refer to themselves, with determined superiority-their next-door V.M.I. rivals are known as Brother Rats) affect a high degree of collegiate courtliness, are seldom seen without coat and tie, still abide by the strict honor system Lee set down for them over 80 years ago. Though they come from 39 different states, most are from the South, where W. & L.'s college of arts and sciences and its schools...
...plump 56, Gaines still rises at dawn, still likes to promenade about the campus swinging one of his 30 canes. He himself never forgets the traditions of W. & L. ("You may not be aware of it," he tells dinner guests in the president's house, "but Lee died in this room.") Nor can his minks, surrounded as they are by a statue of George Washington on the cupola, the bronze plaques that mark the places where Yankee cannon balls hit during the Civil War, the tomb of Lee himself, and the polished skeleton of Lee's favorite horse...