Word: master
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Year ago Morris Joseloff wandered into London's International Art Galleries on St. James Street, was shown two Reynoldses, a Gainsborough, a Hopper, a Sebastiano del Piombo, a "Master of Frankfurt." Because he badly needed money, said Gallery Director S. M. Salomon, he would sell the lot to Mr. Joseloff for ?8,000 ($46,625). Mr. Joseloff agreed to buy provided Mr. Salomon could produce certificates of authenticity, planned to hang his new acquisitions with his already authenticated Corot, Velasquez, Romney, Constable. When Mr. Salomon promised to mail the certificates, Mr. Joseloff paid, sailed, with pictures...
This new step in the resumption of friendly relations with Old Nassau, was made possible by the suggestion and invitation of Julian L. Coolidge '95, professor of Mathematics and Master of Lowell House, who wrote to William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics a short while ago, suggesting that the Harvard and Princeton football teams dine together on the eve before the game and offering the use of the Lowell House Dining Hall for the purpose...
...interesting and proud." Not I, But the Wind is in no sense a great book but it is a convincingly naive memoir, thickly padded with unpublished Lawrence letters, that most Lawrentians will want to read. And, having read it, even Lawrentians may heed the mute nunc dimittis of their master's shade...
...guard recalled that he was also a great horseshoe pitcher. Hauptmann, the Outdoor Man, was a good hand at inshore sailing. He owned a canoe which he kept at nearby City Island . Another boatsman of the vicinity was Dr. John F. ("Jafsie") Condon, the aged and eccentric Bronx school master who as an intermediary handed $50,000 in ransom cash to someone whom he cannot yet positively identify. Bruno Hauptmann did not confine his outdoor life to city parks. His neighbors remember that he used to go hunting in the autumn, bring home a full bag of game, none...
After the election, Roger B. Merriman '96, Gurney Professor of History and master of Eliot House, gave a talk in which he told something of the history of President Eliot for whom the House was named and in whose honor a statue was unveiled last spring...