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...Republican split against Nominee Pinchot continued to widen when 47 of Philadelphia's 48 G. O. P. ward leaders came out for Nominee Hemphill. In Pittsburgh 25 potent businessmen, including Board Chairman Andrew Wells Robertson of Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., President George Stewart Davison of Gulf Refining Co. and President Arthur Luther Humphrey of Westinghouse Air Brake Co., joined political forces with Board Chairman Samuel Mathews Vauclain of Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia to defeat Nominee Pinchot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Pinchot v. G. O. P. | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

Success should attend this experiment in which Harvard has taken the first step. Already several companies have taken an interest in it, and Juniors wishing summer employment with business firms are being urged to make their desires known. Perhaps as the experiment progresses its field will widen, and Technology will see fit, to undertake a similar endeavor. The Tech...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Practice Makes Perfect" | 2/25/1930 | See Source »

...reputed to enjoy are usually more or less enmeshed in a maze of contingence and stipulations so that the University is definitely restricted to a particular policy. Such bequests as the Wyeth gift a few weeks ago, with no strings attached, create a welcome opportunity for the administration to widen its program of expansion where the need of the moment demands readjustment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HARVARD FUND | 1/21/1930 | See Source »

...opportunity for progressive effort which the inclusion of female voices offers in choral music will widen the repertoire of the Glee Club beyond the unfortunately narrow field in which they were previously working. Such a departure from the conventional college glee club practice is a worth while addition to the policy of advancing the standards of the Glee Club library which Dr. Davidson has so assiduously executed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KEEPING IN STEP | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...Union could appreciably increase the opportunity for a large number of students to widen their acquaintance with the best teachers of Harvard, even if this acquaintance be of necessity limited only to the fleeting contact between a lecturer and his listeners. It is to be hoped that tonight's speaker, Dr. Reisner, professor of Egyptology, will be but one of many Harvard professors to be heard in the Union's Living Room this year and in years to come...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROPHETS IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY | 10/23/1929 | See Source »

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