Word: noted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late King George, should be of interest to both members of the University and residents of Cambridge. In this way does Harvard join the great movement throughout the country which has insisted, during the past week, on showing its admiration and affection for George V. It is significant to note that on the day of the King's death, flags were lowered to half-mast along the main thoroughfares of most of the great cities of the United States, and the press, Republica, Democratic or Independant joined unanimously in paying a last tribute to his memory...
...note in the Yale News that a portrait is being painted of the first Eli graduate, Jacob Heminway, who received his degree in 1704. With no description of the gentleman in exis-life. Kirby's opinion that Heminway was a "bigoted, self-centered, stern old Puritan" is said to be confirmed by the fact that in later life "he cut off his tence, the artist, Donald Kirby, is "synthesizing" his features from available scraps of information regarding his only daughter without a penny because she had married an Episcopalian...
January 25th. Up betimes and at the Crimson all the morning where I was glad at my heart to open letters and find that so many professors have answered to the Vagabond's requests for names of their lectures during the next semester. And I did also see a note from Professor Haring announcing that Dunster House will have another art exhibition early in February, this time of the paintings of Mr. Martin Mower. And I was exceedingly pleased to learn that other Houses are planning similar loan exhibitions of well known painters. Yet I do earnestly hope that similarity...
...open secret in Washington was the fact that the "circumstances" were, in substance, the 1936 political campaign. Expert or no expert, he did not wish to stand in the light of one who supported an Administration whose policies he did not approve. President Roosevelt wrote him a warm little note of thanks beginning "My dear Jeff...
...Besides, remember that those whom the gods destroy they first make mad, and note the terrible coincidence by which Barthou began to run after he was wounded and then a distraught officer placed the tourniquet below instead of above the wound...