Word: professor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pound expressed his ideas in Professor Theodore Spencer's house, with whom he stayed while in Cambridge. He is a tall, stocky man with nervous mannerisms and a beard which time has changed from red to an indefinite color. He were a blue sult, a wide-collared shirt with a loosely knotted tie and punctuated his remarks by throwing him self forward in his chair when he wanted to make a point. Once he Jumped onto the arm of his chair to illustrate that America was on the economic precipice and the ways in which a fall could be avoided...
Sponsored by Archibald MacLeish, Curator of the Nieman Collection, authors Booth Tarkington and Thornton Wilder, and Professor William Lyon Phelps of Yale, a new Ivy-League magazine has been announced for publication in October of next year. The magazine, entitled "Harpy," will contain work of students from Harvard, Princeton and Yale...
...Professor William Lyon Phelps has been especially emphatic in his approval, saying "It is a wonder to me that nothing of this sort has been started before. There is a certain unity of sentiment among the three colleges that cannot be found in any other group of universities in this country...
There is one professor to whom we feel he is especially unfair. We should not recognize Professor usher's teaching from Mr. Bunde's description. His lectures on the place of invention in social history, on the German historical school, and on the concept of progress--to name a few--have been high points of our year in the Department; and reflect what we conceive to be Professor Usher's capacity for original, careful, and profound analysis. His topic method of treatment has been a useful too in a vast field which responds badly to the integrated treatment we have...
...tradition the Ivy Oration, inaugurated in 1865, consists of a humorous survey of the graduating class's four years at Harvard. Blackwell will be following in the footsteps of such Harvard greats as Albert Bushnell Hart 80, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Emeritus, and George Lyman Kittredge '82, Gurney Professor of English Literature, Emeritus...