Word: spuriousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard dormitories, on the day of the Harvard-Yale football game, staff members of The Yale Record, undergraduate funnypaper, planted a spurious edition of The Harvard Crimson, undergraduate daily. Alarmed Harvard-men read that President James Bryant Conant had resigned, would be replaced by Yaleman Robert Maynard Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago. Also headlined was a report that Football Coach Richard Cresson Harlow, who is also a Harvard associate in oology, would become a Yale professor of ornithology because "ornithology has always been my main interest and I have always maintained that birds lay bigger and better eggs...
...TIME, Nov. 7). Said Dr. Terman: "If [these claims] can be substantiated, we have here the most important scientific discovery in the last thousand years. . . " Either the educational programs provided by other investigators are less stimulating than those provided at Iowa or the Iowa effects are in some way spurious...
...presence of one good-humored bishop, a small box, alleged to be Joanna Southcott's, was opened, found to contain miscellaneous objects. This box, according to the Panacea Society, was spurious. The society is confident that eventually 24 bishops will gather around the real box, and miracles will then pop. But to the society's recent petition the Church of England's bishops made no reply...
...Physicist Albert Einstein) of "new" symphonies probably never played since Papa Haydn conducted them for the Esterhazys a century and a half ago: Nos. 67, 71, 77, 80, 87. Having examined all the great Haydn collections, except the Esterhazys', Dr. Einstein had made diligent revisions, here deleting a spurious passage put in by an overenthusiastic conductor, there restoring an eccentric "lost" bagpipe trio, until the scores were as authentic as he could make them. After the concert, critics gave editor and performers a vigorously genial nod; so, perhaps, did Papa Haydn's harried head...
Victim of "one of those goddam spurious Irish colleges," Carroll as a young man lit out for Glasgow. There for 15 years, living in the slums himself, he taught slum children about "who discovered America and other such nonsense." He wrote plays which got a hearing at Dublin's famed Abbey Theatre, but brought in little income. England and Scotland ignored him. The U. S. success of Shadow and Substance last year gave Carroll his first independence, enabled him to quit teaching, buy an old country villa...