Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...read with great anxiety yesterday's communication to the Crimson recommending the removal of the Sargent Murals in Widener Library. Such an act, we feel, would defeat its own purpose. We came to Harvard with wavering views on American foreign policy: but the repeated contemplation of these murals has given us so colorful a picture of the sacrifice by which we made the world safe for democracy that we are forever Mr. Sargent's debtors. The quality of the paintings and of the poetry beneath has been many times profaned, but we can scarcely imagine a finer reflection...
...huge intermediary holding company between it and the actual operating companies, and to refund some of its own outstanding obligations, North American Co. offered $70,000,000 worth of debentures and $34,829,000 in $50 par value preferred stock. A syndicate of 127 underwriters headed by Dillon, Read & Co. sold the issues like hot cakes...
Like Mark Twain, Sir Henri Deterding once read a report of his death. Unlike Mark Twain, Sir Henri was shocked-not by the report but by the meagreness of his obituary notices, the fact that he was confused with an obscure brother. That was in 1924, and since then Sir Henri has had plenty of publicity, some of it furnished by himself, some by critics who called him "the most powerful man in the world...
Before the meeting a message was read from President Conant praising the principles on which the meeting was called and advocating a "kindly spirit of tolerance...
...literary-minded, it offers an opportunity for development, with the added satisfaction of seeing one's work in print that will be read by hundreds of breakfasters. "I advise and strongly urge all who wish to write to take part in a Crimson competition" was Professor Copeland's confirmation of this. To busy-bodies, the Crimson offers a legitimate excuse to mind other people's affairs. For undergraduates who like to get around, there is close contact with the men who run Harvard, as officers, professors or students. For men with special interests in a vast variety of subjects--politics...