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...Service Corp., a subsidiary. On its last balance sheet National Electric showed $600,000,000 in assets. Direct cause of the receivership was failure of Manhattan banks to renew $30,000,000 in loans after reviewing a study of the company prepared over the past six weeks by Stone & Webster...
...Leda, against her better judgment, but for the sake of Blount's possible advantage, accepts. Advantages soon follow. De Long, a friend of dune's, takes an interest in Blount's glass works, an interest in Blount's wife. He introduces her to Judith Webster. Washington's star socialite, whose husband is a power in the House of Representatives. Blount soon begins to find success in politics as simple as rolling a log. Before he knows it he is a Senator...
...Memorial Hall Mr. Mezzacappa, Sec. 15 New Lect. Hall Mr. Myron, Sec. 9 New Lect. Hall Mr. Parker, Sec. 6 New Lect. Hall Mr. Perkins, Sec. 5, 11 New Lect. Hall Mr. Pike, Sec. 13 New Lect. Hall Mr. Raphael, Sec. 3, 7 New Lect. Hall Dr. Webster, Sec. 1 New Lect. Hall Geography 33 Geography Bldg. Music 1b Music Bldg. Philosophy 14d Emerson 211 Psychology 10 Emerson 211 Slavic 3b Sever 29 Social Ethics 25 Emerson 211 Social Ethics 39 Emerson 211 Zoology 7a Sever 11 Zoology 7c Sever 11 Zoology 7a-c Sever 11 FRIDAY, JUNE...
...merely for one man that the Vagabond is moved to unwonted sobriety: with the departure of Professor Webster a long line of the illustrious of history are going too. Returning every Spring to Harvard, he has put sense and motion into what were letters on a printed page, and the shadows of an age that is past, a time that is done have moved among us for a time with the life of contemporaries. Other and excellent lecturers there are at Harvard, but no one else who could reveal more by a roguish shrug, by an ironically poised understatement, than...
...collar, and many lectures that made dead men dance and gave that sense of the past which is the best gift of the historian. The Vagabond can offer no better advice to his readers than to join the Freshman in their early trek this morning, and hear Professor Webster on "The Organization of World Peace." Often in the past the Vagabond has written "the Vagabond will go today to hear . . ." purely as a formal phrase, but this morning he means it. And today he can close in no better way than by saying not "Good-bye," but "Till we meet...