Word: marvinism
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Warily, with an eye to the judge, Freedman Norris approached his personal lawyer, Marvin Simpson, held out his arms. They embraced, kissed each other, cried. Bailiffs hustled the courtroom clear. Outside, the dead man's son was forlorn. . . . "I'm sorry for mother. It will hurt...
...five Overseers elected for six-year terms will take the places of E. C. Felton '79, Homer Gage '82, C. H. Brent Hon '13, James Jackson '04, and L. P. Marvin '98, whose terms expire on Commencement...
There was trouble on the border last week. In Tucson, Dr. Cloyd Heck Marvin angrily resigned as president of the University of Arizona. Four members of the board of regents resigned with him. In Albuquerque, Dr. David Spence Hill quietly resigned as president of the University of New Mexico. Both had been accused of disrupting campus morale; of being high-handed. Dr. Hill's ejection, an issue more broadly political than Dr. Marvin's, had necessitated the appointment of a new board of regents by a new Governor after an old board and Governor had taken his part. Dr Marvin...
...left the thriving campus where he had expended much fruitful energy in the past four years, Dr. Marvin must have had to pinch himself to believe he was really going. It was almost ludicrous. Here he was, a planner of big things and a doer of them, a substantial, efficient person who left nothing to chance, actually tripped and frustrated by an obstacle which had seemed microscopic only yesterday. He was a lion laid low by a mouse, a pilgrim to El Dorado who had stepped on a dust adder...
...following minute on the death of J.W. Hallowell '01, a member of the Harvard Fund Council and Agent for his Class, was read by L.P. Marvin...