Word: reads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vipers) Wylie, 57, typically detoured from his academic chore (presenting two Wylie awards to future librarians), wished for a darker Dixie-to-come: "I hope that in a third of a century not only will we be integrated and almost all racism will be a historic fact we read about in old books, but I hope we'll be a lot further along toward all becoming tea-colored...
...horrified to read in the January 17, 1959 Harvard Alumni Bulletin that Dr. Ralph Bunche was nominated for the Harvard Board of Overseers, is putting it very mildly indeed...
...read with great interest your recent article on commuters at Harvard. I went to M.I.T. '30 and while I lived in Monday through Friday, I went home every weekend to save money, and had practically no social life. I was a sort of a "demi-com-muter...
...April 22, 1958, the Philadelphia Inquirer headlined, "Harvard Aide Held in $20,000 Bail as Red Purjurer." The aide was Zborowski, who, according to the authorities, was for 25 years "a trusted Soviet secret police agent whose reports were read personally by Stalin." When Kenneth Robertson asked for the "essential facts surrounding the case of Comrade Zborowski," Pusey replied only that he had been "appointed last Spring by the President and Fellows." Robertson wrote back as follows...
...wagging an avuncular finger, Jacobsson said that with the fall of exports and loss of gold, the businessmen of the U.S. might well take stock of their competitive position, read a "warning about the trend of costs and prices...