Word: senting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Veritas members nevertheless sent out hundreds of letters to classmates and alumni acquaintances, urging protest against the appointment. Kenneth D. Robertson, Jr. '29 wrote to the Hon. Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr. '27 (then Chairman of the Board of Overseers), asking "whether or not you now approve of the Oppenheimer appointment as William James lecturer," and "your views as to Dr. Oppenheimer's moral qualifications to lecture on the subject of ethics and philosophy." Though Robertson's letter began with some valid questions (the second never answered), it ended with a polemic...
...knew" and further conjectured that "there were few less intelligent among those who failed." That Courtney ever arrived at Harvard has remained a source of awe and wonder. His parents deny that he was an imposter; the Admissions Committee rejects the rumor that a letter of acceptance was sent him by mistake. The Deans in general refuse to be approached on "the Peabody matter...
...inspiration, a font of comfort and reassurance to all about him, as he occupied the exposed position at the very bottom of his class. Everyone enjoyed him. One of his roommates remembers that "Courtney slept most of the time, except when he played cards. He was swell. His mother sent him brownies." Another recalls, "He seldom gave anyone trouble. You see, he talked only on infrequent occasions, and then not very well...
...most remarkable phenomena of the bull market has been the rash of stock splits, and the way they have sent stocks scooting up. Staid old American Telephone & Telegraph, for 73 years a holdout against splitting, soared 65 points from 202 within a few weeks after its 3-for-1 split announcement. So popular has splitting become that 80 major companies have registered or announced splits this year, and Wall Streeters feel sure that the old record of 181 splits (in 1955) will be topped before the year is out. While stock splits have gladdened many a stockholder, they have produced...
...protect their entrenched position. They first spread false rumors that he was a tool of the church, French labor unions or the French employers' federation. As customers continued to crowd his store, increasing his sales from $26,000 to $700,000 a year, his competitors sent anonymous letters to authorities charging that he was cheating on taxes, underpaying his help. Revenue agents established that he owed no taxes, was paying high wages...