Word: leonarde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest privately owned yachts in the world. Sleek, white and splendidly appointed inside, as long as a destroyer and a lot wider, she used to carry a crew of 315. Last week the Southern Cross was tied up tight to a pier in Veracruz. Her owner, Axel Leonard Wenner-Gren, No. 1 tycoon of Sweden, had given it to the Government of Mexico. If he had not done so, the Mexican Government might have taken it anyway. Quite clearly, Mexico did not want Axel Wenner-Gren to make personal use of the Southern Cross...
Stanley K. Leonard, czar of the manila envelopes, said last night that in order to avoid utter confusion, men whose names begin with A to K should register before one o'clock, and those whose names begin with L to Z should enroll between one and five o'clock. The remaining hours until eight will take care of the late-comers...
Further assistance to the staff, which has been doubled because of the unexpected last-minute rush, can be given by members of the Summer School who are not bona fide Harvard men, said Leonard. "If they will only defer their registration until tomorrow it will help us considerably." Apparently a Dean's office ruling, makes it impossible to extend registration of undergraduates to Tuesday...
...Leonard declared that the number of students this summer would probably exceed previous estimates, and he stated that 25 to 50 men who had not even signed summer study cards had shown up on Saturday with the intention of taking courses during the coming session...
Yesterday's meager registration of 213 Summer School and graduate students was called but the clam before the storm by Stanley K. Leonard, Chief Registrar, who expects that today's and Monday's flood of students will keep Memorial Hall clerks and solicitors busy from 9 until one o'clock...