Word: nathans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week Rollins' faculty was thoroughly agitated. Editor George Barber of the undergraduate weekly Sandspur, "dismayed beyond words," and President Nathan S. French of the student body both resigned from college. Many another student had already planned not to return next year because of a new "unit-cost" plan which will raise tuition fees to about $1,340.* Hamilton Holt seemed doggedly intent on having his own way even if it meant decimating his faculty and losing leading students. With him he had a complaisant board of trustees, save for Mrs. Raymond Robins, Florida bookshop proprietor and wife...
This is a dissertation on Mr. George Arliss. Several years ago George Jean Nathan said a last word, almost an epitaph, over Mr. George Arliss. Nathan had just seen the celebrated actor in a famous part, and he jotted for his journal the simple comment that Mr. George Arliss splendidly portrayed Hamlet as Mr. George Arliss. That is all that need be said of "The Working Man" now playing at the University Theatre. It is a typical Arliss play, about a self-made old gentleman who still holds his own in the world and proves to his worthy whippersnapper heir...
...benefactions. Their choices also reflect political changes and emergences of new public characters. Among the leading degree-getters of a year ago, with three degrees each, were Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, new Supreme Court Justice, and Stanley King, new president of Amherst College. The Republican administration was represented by Secretaries Mills. Adams and Wilbur, Vice President Curtis. Mrs. Hoover (two degrees) and President Hoover who in absentia got one more for his collection...
...Nathan Pereles, Jr. '04, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was elected secretary, and Mackey Wells '08, also of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was chosen treasurer of the organization...
President Lowell was present at the meeting of the Overseers in the Faculty Room when they convened at 9.15 o'clock yesterday. Other Overseers present were: Nathan Hayward '95, Philadelphia; James H. Perkins '98, New York; Roger Wolcott '99, Boston; Edward Mallinckrodt '00, Jr. St. Louis; Homer Gage '82, Worcester; Joseph Lee '88, Boston; Jesse I. Straus '93, New York; Leverett Saltonstall '14, Boston; Charles A. Coolidge '81, Boston; Henry James '99, New York; William T. Gardiner '14, Gardiner, Me.; Charles F. Adams '88, Boston; George R. Agassiz 84, president, Boston; Allston Burr '89, Boston; Dwight P. Robinson...