Word: stressful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William Whiting Nolen, Harvard '84, and nicknamed "The Window," founded Manter Hall School, where for 38 years he tutored students so they could pass Harvard courses. "The Window" died in 1923, but his school still functions. Its promotion literature, left in dormitories and its advertising in The Crimson stress the founders success, and tell present-day students to "ask Dad--Ask Grandad...
...Many stock buyers seem never to have got over the idea that a stock is a bargain just because its price is low." declared Mr. Gay as he thumped his desk. "I can't stress too much the plain fact that just because a stock is selling at a low price is no guarantee it is cheap. A stock can be selling as low as $2 and still be the dearest security in the country. Make no mistake about it: the right-minded people in Wall Street don't want to see the public rushing into securities without...
...stress our literature is to add more courses to the college curriculum, but since no authority like Mr. De Voto flourishes in the English Department, and perhaps not one in the country whom Harvard could adopt into its colorless brood, this suggests the improbable. A similar alternative, not to be regarded as final, is to improve as much as possible the existing courses. Toward the accomplishment of this the heads of English 7 are making a definite move...
Headed by Herschel Berman '38 and John Hay '38, the new "Monthly" board have as their aim the publication of a current review of topics interesting to the Harvard community, and will stress "readability rather than intellectuality." Articles will be printed not only by undergraduates, but by "Monthly" alumni who have achieved literary fame and other well-known authors will be asked to contribute...
Coward hastily donned a dressing-gown and excused himself, and when he returned, it was merely to mention that the king had notified the Herman L. Rogers' at Cannes of Mrs. Simpson's arrival. At that point, the playwright refused to comment further. He was obviously laboring under emotional stress of some kind...