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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That the present administration should see fit to let this Graduate School die in the face of such a demand for its product and in view of the unique opportunities Harvard has developed since 1909, even though it is admitted that prosperity is still sulking on the wrong side of the corner, is defensible only on the grounds of absolute inability to scrape up the necessary funds...
...Mariner & Hoskins. That is where Chromel was born. Hoskins Co. was incorporated in 1908, marketing an electric furnace developed during the Chromel experimentations. Next year the company was moved from Chicago to Detroit. Hoskins dropped out in 1910, and Marsh was faced with the strenuous job of marketing a product for which there was yet little need. When General Electric began making the alloy for itself, Mr. Marsh pressed a long-lived patent infringement suit, finally in 1915 compelled that firm to buy a part interest in Chromel patents. The memory of the time spent in court still irks...
...with the stamp of an A.B. after their names. Eventually, some solution must be found for their problem. For now it is the duty of the University to make every effort possible to inspire these men to study by supplying them with stimulating leadership, to realize that the finished product going out of Cambridge is not in many cases adequately trained...
...even better as the ludicrous circus manager in The Bartered Bride. In Rigoletto the swashbuckling assassin was Baritone John Gurney of Jamestown, N. Y., who took up music after Harvard Business School. Marie's mother in the Smetana opera was Lucelle Browning from Durham, N. C., a product of the Juilliard School of Music...
...Connecticut Yankee", joint product of Mark Twain and Will Rogers, flashes again its jolly anachronisms. Myrna Loy and Frank Albertson do the supporting, along with a host of telephones, automobiles, tanks, and machine guns. There is many an occasion for a belly-laugh, but one can't help feeling that the lavish spilling of blood militates a bit against the gaiety. "Forgotten Faces" shows Herbert Marshall, up the river for murder, nevertheless preventing Gertrude Michael, his extremely naughty wife, from blackmailing their daughter, adopted into respectability. There are some telling bits of psychological suggestion along the harrowing, strident...