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Representing the Psychological Corporation and directing all its polling activities around Boston is A. A. Roback, Ph.D. '17, internationally renowned writer, columnist, and lecturer on psychology. Roback, who lives at 8 Prescott Street, has been giving a number of courses for the University's Extension Service...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nine Men Work in Nationwide Poll | 11/10/1939 | See Source »

Major General David Prescott Barrows (political science chairman, onetime president of the university): "Entertaining, irrelevant and 200% American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pipes and Old Jokes | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Last week Congressional Record readers guffawed at the latest maneuver of the Prescott, Ariz. polysyllabist-an insertion of no less than 19½ pages (40,000-plus words) of Ashurstiana, the nearest thing there is to a complete collected edition of the famed, lush, Ashurstian magniloquence. Said debonair Henry happily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Silver-Tongued Sunbeam | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...Boston, James Moran hired twelve men, varying from cross-eyed to farsighted, issued them muskets with blank cartridges, marched them out to Bunker Hill, reconstructed the Revolutionary battle, to prove that Captain William Prescott could not have shouted: "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!" Result : the far-sighted men opened fire at 75 feet, the normal-visioned at 50, the near-sighted never fired at all, were presumably "skewered on enemy bayonets.'" Explained Moran: "I'm doing this because I like to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 12, 1939 | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...committee includes L. Winfield Alberts '41, McCrae Cobb '39, Aldridge E. Hunt, Jr. '41, E. George Nadeau '40, David P. Sheppard '40, David Stiles '40, and Prescott H. Wellman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop House Dance Held In Gore Courtyard Tonight | 5/19/1939 | See Source »

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