Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born in Manhattan in 1874, "Jack" Pope was the first student to win a scholarship to the American Academy in Rome founded by the late Charles Follem McKim. Three years in Europe supplied him with wide architectural learning and a love for the grand style. During the rest of his life Pope's imagination soared no further than the symmetries of Greek and Roman architecture. Such was the character of his period...
...World Wide Broadcasting Foundation ("radio programs of cultural and educational value") operating through Boston's short wave station WINAL, got $40,000 for two years. C. Last autumn there was published in London, with Foundation help, a list of 1,639 scholars (''Scholars in Exile") who had been ousted from academic posts in Germany by the Nazis. Most of them were Jews, partly Jewish, or married to Jewesses; some were pure "Aryans" who could not stomach the Nazi ideology. By the end of 1936 the Rockefeller Foundation had given a total of $532,000 to universities...
...Public Administration building will bear the name of the donor and will be in Georgian style, four stories high, and about 250 feet long and 50 feet wide. The structure will face toward Harvard Square and will extend westward approximately from the present eastern end of the Hemenway gymnasium to the triangle in front of Austin Hall...
Only 23 more times do the watchmen tear the pages off the calendar, and then it is Friday, September 24. The portals of historic Memorial Hall swing wide once more. Once more, in the three hundred and second year of Harvard, an entering Class, the Class of 1941, starts its course of Harvard history making...
This the portly man took in, slowly opening wide his big brown eyes. "Harvard?" he said, at length, "What's Harvard...