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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have only two direct comments to make. First, where do you get that drinking stuff? I drink no more than the average politician and a damn sight less than many newshawks, as you call them. You are at liberty to search my official Naval record, and perform such other spy work as the investigation will require in regard to this matter. There is nothing whatever in the record, on and off, to justify the politely sordid comments you make concerning liquor, and myself. For your information, I am suffering from acute neuritis in my legs which followed a severe case...
...that "the way to make money from the practice of optometry is to forget money." Dr. Folsom, who reads history, Emerson and the Abbé Dimnet, recommended that cash registers, show cases, "dealer-help" display cards and other such commercial paraphernalia be kept out of the patient's sight, that no clock be placed on the reception room wall for waiting patients to count the minutes...
...about 10.10 there will be a fanfare of four trumpets, the doors of Widener will open, and the Academic Procession will emerge: a colorful sight with its many-hued academic gowns, including the scarlet of Oxford and Cambridge, worn by a number of the Harvard faculty as well as by many of the guests. The various groups will march in the inverse order of rank, the professors first and President Conant and President Lowell marching last. The procession will be headed by the Sheriffs of Middlesex and Suffolk: a time-honored custom dating from the period when the boisterousness...
...Class of 1940 should witness this Celebration; it will, in the first place, be a sight worth seeing, a side-show to be remembered; more important, it will show the magnitude of the institution, its power. It will show why Harvard's latest Class should consider themselves extremely fortunate in being allowed the privilege of attending the College...
...northeast end of the trading floor, observed that the New York State flag was missing from its place beside the U. S. flag. Instead, they beheld the red banner of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, its golden hammer & sickle stirring gently under a slight draught. At this unprecedented sight, a group of reactionaries hissed, booed, catcalled...