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...name to local Aristocracy. It never shivered its timbers in generations of debate. Not New England rum in its prime was dearer or more venerated. For the last thirty-eight years it rested easily on wires. Corinthian columns were near it. Above it were illustrious names, such as Parkman, Motley. Beneath it, of late, has been Speaker Saltonstall. So fortunate a fish wouldn't have swum away of itself. Somebody from the gallery prigged it on Wednesday. The ingenious Cantabrigians of The Lampoon and The CRIMSON were at once suspected. There is talk of a youth carrying a long...
...important are: J. B. Conant '13, professor of Chemistry; J. B. Munn 14, professor of English; Grenville Clark '03, Fellow of Harvard College; C. P. Curtis, Jr. '13; E. A. Whitney '17, master of Kirkland House and associate professor of History; S. E. Morison '08, professor of History; Francis Parkman '18, headmaster of St. Marks School; C. C. Little '10, former president of Maine University and the University of Michigan; R. B. Merriman '96, master of Eliot House and Gurney Professor of History; T. N. Perkins '91, Fellow of Harvard College; Lewis Perry, headmaster of Exeter; G. H. Edgell...
...fascinated reader of Parkman's narrative of the fall of Louisburg in 1745 this collection of contemporary journals may offer sharp contrast to the romantic tale that is found in the "Half Century of Conflict." The book is a compilation of ten accounts of the siege by different eye-witnesses, six of whom remain unknown to the present day. Written in the plain matter of fact fashion of the unimaginative colonial they simply set forth the events that took place in the one American expedition of the War of the Austrian Succession. One must not expect to find more than...
...time over who would be Harvard's next president and who would be the Athenaeum's next librarian. The first question is still open: for the presidency, which may not be filled until next autumn, Dean Kenneth Ballard Murdock is still in the lead, with Headmaster Francis Parkman of St. Mark's School increasingly mentioned. The second question was answered last week, and surprisingly: the "First Gentleman's Library in the World'' has a lady librarian for the first time in its 126 years...
Final preparations for the annual Christmas Services were made yesterday with the announcement that E. C. Moore, Parkman Professor of Theology, will conduct the services this evening, instead of Dean Willard Learoyd Sperry, Chairman of the Board of Preachers, as originally planned. Dean Sperry will lead the program tomorrow evening, however. P. L. Harris, Adviser in Religion, will be in charge tomorrow afternoon, when all children of families connected with the University are especially invited. This service will begin at 4.30 o'clock, and the evening ones will start at 8.15 o'clock...