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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago's South Side 60 years ago Jacob Portis proved better at raising a family than at selling real estate: his eight boys had to sell newspapers. Milton Portis, the eldest (now 62), worked his way through medical school. The two youngest, Bernard and Sidney (now 42 and 45), were put through by their older brothers. Three others, Isadore, Arnold and Theodore, went to work for a hat firm and in 1914 they and the remaining two brothers, Lyon and Henry, set up Portis Brothers Hat Co. They had $23,000 to start with, half borrowed from Dr. Milton...
Resettled at Zurich, Joyce taught at the Berlitz school, as he had at Trieste. Mrs. Joyce remembers poverty and small apartments, "long on mice, short on kitchen utensils." But Joyce was happy, worked hard on Ulysses, enjoyed drinking white wine with English Painter Frank Budgen at the Cafe Pfauen. Lenin used to frequent the same cafe, but the literary and the proletarian revolutionists never...
Held in connection with the annual wo-day meeting of the University Board of Overseers, the affair will keynote addresses by President Conant, Governor Leverett Saltonstall '14, John H. Williams, Dean of the Graduate School of Public Administration, and Lucius N. Littauer '78 of New York City, donor of the building...
...which Mr. Littauer gave to establish the new center, only part has been spent on the building, a four story, granite structure, which houses not only the School of Public Administration but in addition a 200,000 volume library, an auditorium, eight large seminar rooms, a large reading room, lounge, and a statistical laboratory...
...ancient question of the legitimacy of university tutoring has recently been reviewed by the Harvard Crimson and, as the system is conducted there, found to be a definite evil. With a request to other Harvard publications to refuse tutoring school advertisements the Cambridge daily formally declared war on the system in general. . . . Not content with discreet announcements, high pressure advertising is brought into use (but the tutoring schools) inferring that he who studies is a sucker and which includes a cocktail party for freshmen. . . . Having as an example the mild form of the system as it exists here...