Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Election, on Saturday, of Dr. Charles Seymour, former provost of Yale and professor of History, as President of Yale University drew praise from all sources. Officially President Conant spoke for Harvard, but unofficially, President Seymour was hailed as "a wise choice", "an able administrator", and a "distinguished scholar" here...
...smiling faintly. Next to him square-headed Justice Butler, 70, chuckled over something to Justice Roberts, 61, the Court's baby. At the other end of the bench Justice Cardozo. 66, was reading intently. Justice Sutherland. 74, stroked his Vandyke, also read. Chief Justice Hughes, 74, spoke quietly to Justice Van Devanter beside him and Mr. Van Devanter, 77, smiled dourly. But the argument went on to its conclusion, the Justices interrupting occasionally to make inquiries. Finally they rose and filed out in their customary dignity without either the attorneys or the courtroom audience realizing that they had witnessed...
Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 9: Telling of the researches which have been conducted by more than twenty investigators at the Harvard Observatory during the past year, Dr. Harlow Shapley, director of the Observatory, spoke here tonight before the American Philosophical Society...
This kind of British overture to last Saturday's curtain-raising in Berlin on "The World's Best Paid Male Chorus,"* spoke volumes. It meant that, at the end of four years of absolute power granted him originally by the German Reichstag, freely elected (TIME, April 3, 1933), Adolf Hitler is seen by all Europe as a portentous figure, no longer an upstart but a German Chancellor of almost Bismarckian stature, a figure clothed with the aura as well as the fact of Power. Thus Der Führer was recently painted in what is today his favorite...
...stray ramble through the back pages of the University's catalogue turned up some amusing examples of plain and fancy names among the student body. Perhaps most breathtaking is that of H. R. X. d'Aeth, English graduate student from Cambridge University, who spoke as a delegate at the undergraduate part of the Tercentenary last September. For harmonic reciprocity we have Messrs. Ting and Toong of China, for laconic resignation there is I. Pass '40, while B. Schur '40 exhorts all to verify before jumping to conclusions. It's getting to be sinfully weather, too, as A. Schuh '38 will...