Word: masterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Freshmen unused to the wiles of Cambridge find the art of being a Harvard man harder to master than the study card, class schedule, and H.A.A. ticket embroilment all rolled into one. For one groping in the dark this way it is particularly important to understand that the foremost pleasure of being a Harvard man comes from the fact that there is no such thing...
...addition to those mentioned above, other speakers on the afternoon program were: Stanley Baldwin, Chancellor of Cambridge University, from England via shortwave; Learned Hand '93, president of the Alumni Association; Alexander Dunlop Lindsay, Master of Balliol and vice-Chancellor of Oxford University; and George Russell Agassiz '84, president of the Board of Overseers...
...clock those sitting at the speakers table filed into the Hall, taking their seats on a raised dais. Among those present were Deans Hanford and Leighton, Roger B. Merriman '96, Master of Eliot House, Julian L. Coolidge '95, Master of Lowell House, Elliott C. Cutler '09, ex-president of the Associated Harvard Clubs, and Aldrich Durant '02, Business Manager of the University...
...less than half what would be necessary to meet obligations of $1,438,000 due in 1935. Baldwin's tall, impassive President George Harrison Houston said conditions were not likely to improve enough to make the reorganization unnecessary. The plan was declared "fair & equitable" by a special master last December...
Among U. S. economists. Stuart Chase has a reputation for being the best storyteller of the lot. Master of the art of leading audiences up the mountain, he has held out bold and attractive visions of happy economic futures, plausible-sounding and easily-attained, in most of the sprightly, bright, informal, argumentative volumes he has written in the past eleven years. Interspersing his books with anecdotes, personal reminiscences, moral tirades against waste, he has always discussed human problems as an economist, economic problems as an evangelist, political problems as an engineer, and philosophic problems as an irascible citizen who wants...