Word: lippmanns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speaking to 1910 at the Class Dinner Tuesday evening, Walter Lippmann told his classmates that they were now ready for graduation. The ceremonies in June 1910 gave degrees to several hundred men who failed during the next quarter of a century to make use of their chance to re-adjust the world to its changing conditions. As the members of 1935 go forth today, one wonders whether another Lippmann will tell them the same thing...
...from the board of the New Republic. He was named "a Quaker who wouldn't quake." Further comments by Mr. Little brought out the fact that he was now painting, not writing, and as a result of this he is now painting real faces and not literary faces. Walter Lippmann '10 was next called to the speakers' stand to receive the benediction that "he was a great journalist who refused to be buried on Boston Common." He was further praised by the phrase "his discussions of the Republican and Democratic parties are more interesting than the parties themselves...
Following the business meeting, the Phi Beta Kappa procession will form at 11.15 o'clock outside the Hall and march to Sanders Theatre for the literary exercises, fifteen minutes later. In these exercises, open to the public, Walter Lippmann '10 will give the oration and Edward K. Rand '94, Pope Professor of Latin, will give the poem...
Thirty nine Seniors were elected to the Harvard Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa last Saturday. The annual meeting and literary exercises of the Chapter will be held on Friday. At a performance open to the public, Walter Lippmann '10 will speak, Edward K. Rand '94, Pope Professor of Latin, will deliver a poem, a prayer will be given by the Reverend Henry B. Washburn '91, and the double quartette of the Glee Club will sing. Later in the day a private meeting of the Chapter will be held to which the public will not be admitted...
...noble experiment" (literally "an experiment noble in motive") and who harped for four years on "rugged individualism" was already itching to get into a momentous fight, the form of which even Franklin Roosevelt, smart politician though he was. did not yet clearly perceive. It remained for Pundit Walter Lippmann. once a good friend of Herbert Hoover, to take most of the wind out of that Republican's sails with these caustic words...