Word: wendelle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nell J. Smelser--Adams; secretary-treasurer, Harvard World Federalists; Social Relations Society; Edward Whittaker Prize Scholarship; Jacob Wendell Scholarship.
When General Education came to Harvard, it was a new idea for most undergraduates, but not all. Ever since the turn of the century, when it was founded by the late professor Barrett Wendell, the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature has quietly been practising its own brand of...
Last week, Calvert President William Wendell Wachtel, suave enough to pose for one of his own ads, uncorked a rebuttal in The Advertiser and in a letter to the Washington Post. The men of distinction, said he, "are temperate and Godfearing . . . gentlemen [who] prefer to drink in their own homes...
Harold Laski attended Manchester Grammar School, performed brilliantly in Latin and Greek, then went up to Oxford to take a First Class Honors degree in modern history. From Oxford, Laski went as a lecturer to McGill University in Montreal, thence to Harvard, where he became fast friends with Felix Frankfurter...
The literary attack on the teacher, as Psychologist Charles analyzes it, had its first flowering during the flowering of New England. William Ellery Channing, for instance, seemed to think that the essential qualities of the schoolmarm were "gray hair and spectacles." Of his own schoolmistress he recalled: "Her nose was...