Word: wendelle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The $2,000 Faculty Prize of the Harvard University Press for the most distinguished contribution to scholarship published by the Press, was awarded to Howe for his book, "Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: The Shaping Years." In his youth, Howe served as a secretary to Holmes.
Succeeding Earl Warren as California's Republican national committeeman (Warren resigned to become state attorney general), Knowland used the post to travel the length and breadth of the state, getting to know people and letting them know him. He made news on being elected chairman of the Republican National...
Kenneth Auchincloss '59, of Lowell House and New York City, has been awarded the Jacob Wendell Scholarship for 1956-57. The scholarship is given yearly to a member of the sophomore class who is judged by the committee the most promising scholar in his class.
Playwright Nash, who also wrote the film script, tells a story "about droughts that happen to people," and about how the rains come to a dust-bowl daisy named Lizzie Curry (Katharine Hepburn). Lizzie is a girl who believes she is "as plain as old shoes," and that no man...
Closing at week's end, the play mingled one or two thrills with an appalling number of frills, one or two philosophic truths with a succession of Polonius-like truisms, an occasional feeling for language with pretentious and barbarous misuse of it. A good cast of actors, including Claude...