Word: samuels
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sense of the Past, Such was the beginning of an institution which is almost twice as old as the Republic it has so ably served, and whose history it embraces and reflects. Harvard had been open a hundred years when incipient young rebels like John and Samuel Adams and James Otis placidly penned their exercises beneath the Lion & Unicorn of the Georges. Four years before the British burned the U. S. Capitol, John Kirkland began his brilliant presidency of Harvard (1810-28) which gave the University its Law and Divinity schools, turned out such ornaments of U. S. Literature...
...unnamed Philadelphia graduate had been willing to wait a century for the denouement of a crabbed jest when he wrote: ''I owe nothing to the president, professors and tutors of Harvard College in office from 1810 to 1814." Of larger interest was a note from Samuel Atkins Eliot, later Harvard's treasurer, apologizing for delay in some Bicentenary task because his 2-year-old son was seriously ill. Said James Bryant Conant: "It was lucky for Harvard that this baby recovered, for his name was Charles William Eliot." At this mention of the man under whose celebrated...
...meteorologist who told him that the rain would last only half an hour. Down pounded the mace of Sheriff John McElroy of Middlesex County as it must to open any Harvard ceremony, and by the time Latin Professor Edward Kennard Rand had finished his Salutary Oration and History Professor Samuel Eliot Morison had begun on ''The Early History of Harvard'' the rain had indeed stopped...
Dodsworth (Samuel Goldwyn-United Artists). "Why don't you try stout, Mr. Dodsworth?" drawls a woman's voice from the shadowy corner of a steamship deck. Sam Dodsworth (Walter Huston) who has just asked the steward for a drink that will soothe his nerves, whirls around, surprised. Mr. Dodsworth's surprise was nothing to that of Producer Sam Goldwyn and his staff when, at this line, I he audience at a Hollywood preview last week burst into applause. The applauders were not partisans of stout but of Mary Astor, whose first line they recognized even before...
...European road drivers, of whom many are socialites like Italy's Count Antonio Brivio, England's Hon. Brian Lewis and Francis Richard Henry Penn Curzon, 5th Earl Howe. Only U. S. amateur driver entered is Joel Thorne, onetime outboard motorboat champion and grandson of the late Banker Samuel Thorne, who has seven cars in the race, plans to drive one himself. First prize in the Columbus Day race, in addition to the new Vanderbilt Cup, will be $20,000, plus accessory and lap prizes...