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