Word: stanfords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the speakers were Thomas H. Quinn '36, toastmaster; Charles A. Watkins '09, chief aide for the Associated Harvard Clubs Meeting; Nikita Elisseeff, of the University of Paris; Frank P. McInnis, of the University of Toronto; Ian Harvey, of Oxford; A James Copp III, of Stanford; and Edward K. Rand '94, Pope Professor of Latin...
...things did not go off as planned. As chairman of the Conference the New Deal imported an engineer from Palo Alto, Professor Emeritus William Frederick Durand of Stanford University. That famed expert in aerodynamics made a brilliant beginning by addressing the guests, without the aid of any translators, in English, French, German and Spanish, all of which he speaks fluently. This tour de force was enjoyed by the 650 foreign delegates who showed up. These included : Germany's Herr Doktor Julius Dorpmuller, the pudgy head of the Reich rail roads who was President of the second World Power Conference...
After dinner Teastmastor Thomas H. Quinn '36 will introduce speaker Edward A. Taft '04, president of the host Club, Nikita Elisseeff, of the University of Paris, Frank P. McInnis, of the University of Toronto, Ian Harvoy, of Oxford University, A. James Copp, 3d, of Stanford University, and Edward K. Rand '94, Pope Professor of Latin...
...reply from Stanford gives the gratifying information that two official undergraduate Delegates have been appointed, namely, Mr. William Foster and Miss Betty Grover, I am afraid that the thought of a young woman Delegate had not be entertained when the invitation was sent; but as Harvard College has no undergraduate women students and as all arrangements for hospitality are within the monastic walls of the residential houses, I fear it will not be fessible to entertain any but men Delegates...
Wilson Foster and James Cobb, 3rd were later appointed as the two Delegates from Stanford...