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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last Christmas a Captain of the U. S. A. Engineers Corps, who came down here to build the Nicaraguan Canal, but got married instead, sent me a year's subscription to TIME, as a Christmas present. I thought it about the best news periodical I had ever seen, but after reading some of the crank letters you print I think I should engage some of the writers to show you how to run your magazine. The only complaint I have is misleading advertising...
That is the principle which causes human institutions to last. The men who founded Harvard College in 1636 were of an age when many of them might have seen Shakespeare in the flesh. When Harvard was one hundred years old there was as yet no American nation. At its 200th anniversary the solidarity of the American union had still to be put to its crucial test. Yet through three hundred great and troubled years Harvard has endured; it has lived past wars and revolutions; it is older than the government under which it exists. Like a great river which...
...sample of the colorful ceremony tomorrow was given yesterday when the delegates were received in Sanders Theatre. The usual black gowns seen at Harvard Commencements were set off by the most resplendent gowns over seen in Cambridge. Many South American representatives wore swords, frock coats, and their chests were covered with medals...
Thomas Gucker, 3d, Vice-President of the class of 1937 at Princeton, was the concluding speaker, and discussed the Harvard student as seen by an outsider...
...season of Harvard's jubilee there is a great danger that amid the world-wide tribute, the pomp and circumstance inevitable in such an affair, Harvard men may lose sight of the real meaning of the Tercentenary. As it is understood that the birdseye views of Harvard's grandeur seen in the Sunday rotogravure show only the stage-set for the life of the university, so it must also be stressed that the present celebration merely reflects the satisfaction of Harvard men in the intellectual position of their university...