Word: seavey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have read the apology made by Professor Seavey, and while it is both manly and commendable it does not alter the facts; neither does it alter my decision that Leo should not return to Harvard...
With the receding and quieting of the waters disturbed by Mr. Curley last Wednesday when he called public attention to be "slur" upon his name there emerges clear and bright the bottom of the affair. It is obvious that Professor Seavey's comparison of the ex-governor with Chicago's notorious Thompson was an analogy unintended to be malicious. There few men in the teaching profession so tactless and unaware of their position as to harass a living public name openly and directly, especially when the son of that name sits in their classroom...
...fact that the Boston papers gave slight space and less editorial comment to Mr. Curley's huff is proof enough that his attitude is one of simple pettiness and his publicizing an example of unsubtle politics. Undoubtedly Mr. Curley hopes what Professor Seavey believes, that like Thompson he will be re-elected mayor of Boston next November...
...Seavey answered by referring to the Boston ex-Governor. "Well, everybody knows about Curley, and yet I'm afraid he's going to be elected Mayor." There was an embarrassing silence in the room, although no one looked around toward Leo, whom everybody in the room except Seavey knew to be present. Then the discussion started on a different angle...
After class, Leo went up to Seavey, who immediately apologized. The whole situation was revealed by Leo's father Wednesday night at the officers' meeting of the Hibernia Savings Bank, of which the ex-Governor is president...