Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Referring to your editorial of this morning, "Boy Page Mr. Whitney", I believe I can contribute some decided evidences of Harvard democracy. As you know, the Engineering School has several dozen of its third-year men out in industry on the cooperative plan. These men are seeking knowledge of the world's work by measures more authoritative than books. Commenting on one of these men last week, a foundry superintendent said as follows: "When I was asked to put your student on our cupola gang, I thought he would be doing well if he stood the pig iron carrying about...
...aristocratic school," that "Harvard students come from the two highest classes, the idle rich, and the rich professional class which serves the rich", and that "certain distinguished Harvard professors of undoubted aristocratic lineage could well afford to be democratic in theory". The communication, signed "H. Payne Whitney, Jr., Harvard 1921", stated that "less than 15 percent of Harvard students come from homes of more than ordinary wealth...
Five days later, Mr. Howard B. Day attacked Mr. Whitney on the grounds that his idea of "ordinary wealth" is "different than yours and mine." This communication, entitled "The Harvard Quibblers" uses the fact that Mr. H. Payne Whitney, Senior, "is one of the largest financiers of Wall Street" as conclusive evidence that the young Whitney's ideas of democracy and wealth must be decidedly biased...
...effectiveness of Mr. Day's arguments is rather shattered by a careful search of the university catalogues of the past four years, which falls to disclose any evidence that H. Payne Whitney, Jr., was ever registered with the class of 1921. Yale University might well be dumbfounded at the suggestion that one of its most loyal families--for the Whitneys are strictly and Eli clan had taken up the defense of Harvard in the Middle West...
...mystery in regard to "H. Payne Whitney, Jr." becomes even more involved in the "Illini" of February 2. Here a correspondent, who boasts that he "has no Wall Street rating, but comes from a family of very ordinary means from a little New England village of five hundred," takes up the defense of the apparently mythical "Mr. Whitney". "The writer knows Mr. Whitney quite well," he says, "and Mr. Whitney is widely known for his democracy, friendliness, and courtesy, as well as exceptional personal ability". As the communication is signed "Harvard '23", the identity of Mr. Whitney's friend...