Word: murrays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When, in March 1911, Columbia University's President Nicholas Murray Butler dismissed "J. E." as chairman of Columbia's Division of Modern Languages and Literatures, he claimed that fiery young Professor Spingarn was unable to work smoothly with his colleagues. Professor Spingarn always believed that his real offense was his valiant and tactless championship of a Columbia scholar who had been cashiered six months before...
Oxford was well able to speak for itself. Famed Classicist Gilbert Murray summed up the opinion of many a don: "Perfectly monstrous!" Last week Oxford with graceful malice planned to send to Germany not a delegate but an address "extolling the greatness of German learning in the past." Hopping mad when only Cambridge accepted, Rector Magnificus Groh belatedly withdrew the rest of his British invitations...
Last week Rector Groh's invitations had reached the U. S. Officially Cornell, Columbia, Harvard accepted without controversy. But the Heidelberg invitations soon raised a full-sized rumpus among undergraduates, alumni, faculty members. President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia, cruising in the Caribbean, heard that liberal students were up in arms against Columbia's acceptance. In the Cornell Sim Historian Hendrik Willem Van Loon, "a 101% Aryan," looked into his Alma Mater's past, doubted "that Hitler's bright boys would care to associate with representatives of a university founded by that eminently broad-minded Quaker...
...soundest law firms, but Ben never intended to be anything so humdrum to him as a lawyer. Byron, lately dead at Missolonghi, was his hero. While still a law clerk, he began what he intended to be a brilliant literary career by writing a satirical society novel. Famed Publisher Murray fought shy of it, and Ben was cut to the quick. Wanting to get rich very quickly, he took a flyer in South American mining shares. was soon over his ears in debt. Leaving his stuffy law office, he persuaded Murray to start a daily paper to rival the great...
...summary: YALE HARVARD Miles, Frantz, r.f. r.g., White, Wills, Dampeer, Litman Weymouth, McNeil, Frantz, l.f. l.g., Struck, Mason Kelley, Murray, c. c., Gray Rockwith, r.g. r.f., McGowan, Lowman Gilman, l.g. l.f., Lowman, Kuhn, Lavietes