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...president is not Harvard's official greater of visiting dignitaries by any means, but Conant enjoyed talking to old friends. He went to the Colgate football game this year with Sir Charles Kay Webster, former professor of History at Harvard and now at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study for a term...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Held Endless Diversity of Interests | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

...lost records of the first eight clubs are: Griswold(4-0); Marshall Law (4-0); Jaffe (4-0); Frankfurter Law (3-1); Gardner (3-1); Casner Equity (3-1); Story (3-1); Gladstone-Webster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eight Debating Teams Qualify in Ames Comp | 12/16/1952 | See Source »

From Harvard are Stephen Stamatopulos '53, of Lowell House and Greenfield, Mass., majoring in international affairs, Ronald M. Dworkin '53, of Eliot House and Providence, majoring in philosophy, and Charles MacVeagh '53, of Eliot House and Webster Groves, Mo., majoring in English history and literature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Named as Rhodes Scholars | 12/15/1952 | See Source »

...people of our country apparently possess a wisdom not shared by the eggheads whom I've long suspected of being eggheads...Webster's defines an intellectual as one "...endowed with intellect; having unusual mental capacity." One would think that such a person would also be possessed of wisdom. Yet today's intellectual seems somewhat lacking in this respect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 24, 1952 | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

Boshell was well equipped. Born in Illinois and educated at the University of Chicago, he was attorney for Chicago's Consolidated Electric & Gas Co. when Manhattan's Stone & Webster took it over in 1933. Boshell went along, rose to vice president of Stone & Webster, and handled the liquidation of some 50 utility companies under the death-sentence clause. Moreover, since Stone & Webster once did a financial study for Standard Gas, he was familiar with the intricacies of its history: its early dominance by Chicago Tycoon H. M. Byllesby, who put the pyramid together, then by Wall Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Job with No Future | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

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