Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those elected to the Permanent Class Committee, Keppel is President of the Student Council, Secretary of Phillips Brooks House and Chairman of the Eliot House Committee. Hutter is captain of Harvard's first major swimming team. Barnes is chairman of the Leverett House Committee and President of the Glee Club. Brooks is on the Jayvee crew and the Ski team...
...writing; from the world, his name will attract men of worth. It makes little difference whether the research work of the legendary teacher is lasting; what does make the difference is that the personality of such a man leaves a permanent effect. One of the major responsibilities of the University is toward its students; while research neglects teaching in favor of the advancement of knowledge, teaching, on the contrary, cannot ignore its obvious function. To the student, legendary teaching is the best type, and Bernard De Voto its eminent representative. What greater impulse can there be to justify the demand...
Death Revealed. Of George Charles Beresford, 72, original McTurk of Kipling's Stalky & Co.; in Brighton, Eng.; fortnight ago. After school with Stalky (Major-General Lionel Charles Dunsterville) and Beetle (Kipling) at Westward Ho! he went to India as an engineer, contracted malaria, returned to England, became an antique dealer and photographer...
...Minnesota, among the Swedes, Norwegians, Danes, Finns, rich & poor alike, he found a thrifty, hardworking, hospitable, good-natured people, whose few so-called Reds were only followers of peaceable Norman Thomas. His major discovery was that "they are like electric cookstoves and concert violinists. They get hot slowly . . . but when they get hot they're volcanic." In the Little Italics of Manhattan and California he interviewed priests, millionaires, anarchists, labor leaders-all good Americans, who admired Roosevelt and Mussolini as they once admired Washington and Garibaldi. Again he found few authentic Reds, only Latin sound & fury. The central fact...
...growing success of Harvard's two new major sports, basketball and swimming, particularly from the point of view of team spirit, have made the undergraduates acutely conscious that two other major sports have suffered by contrast. In both of these other two, hockey and baseball, there exists a coaching problem...