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...degree. In 1915 he met the most pervasive influence of his life in a little book by a Scot named Patrick Geddes, a biologist trained under the great Thomas Henry Huxley. Geddes had turned to sociology and to the study of Edinburgh and other cities. Mumford became a student of New York. Within the next few years he covered the city systematically on foot, studied architecture, learned to tell the approximate date c tenement was built from a glance at the fire escape or the cornice...
...Student Mumford's long correspondence and friendship with Geddes did not end until 1932, when that great-bearded, great-craniumed and voluble Scot died in France with a knighthood fresh upon him. By that time Lewis Mumford had lived, worked, sketched and studied in London, Paris, Pittsburgh and New York. He had made a literary success with a biography of Herman Melville and had written the first meagre draft of what has since been expanded to Technics and Civilization and The Culture of Cities...
...alleged suicide of Fisher is the third to have occurred among Harvard students this year. The body of F. William Burgess, 1L, believed to have jumped to his death from the West Boston Bridge November 13, was found floating in the Charles River Basin February 6, and the body of John F. Higgins, a post graduate student in the Law School was found hanging in his apartment in he Ambassador Hotel, February...
Hicks has been branded a "Communist" and his appointment violently opposed by patriotic organizations and local political officials. The difference between the two cases lies in the fact that the Laski controversy was started by an issue of the Lampoon devoted to an attack on him, while no student group has come out against the Hicks appointment...
...last few days, the reactionaries of Massachusetts have attacked Harvard for the appointment of Granville Hicks, a prominent and recognized student of American History and an avowed Communist. These same "patriots" are further attempting to place all responsibility for the activity of the Young Communist League on our branch here at Harvard. We say that the reactionaries did not have as the object of their attack the Communists at Harvard, but rather the existence of all that is liberal in the life and traditions of our university. We best understand the events of the past week if we realize that...