Word: wolff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summary: COLUMBIA (38) HARVARD (25) O'Brien, l.f. r.f., McGowan Wolff, r.f. l.f., Lowman Casey, c. c., Herrick Maciocre, r.g. l.g., Dampeer Anderson, l.g. r.g., Wills...
Some liberal faculty members, including President James B. Conant, are friendly with him. From his wide contacts, Wolff is said to know more about what is going on at Harvard than anyone else except the President of The Crimson. (WHEE!) News-Week...
Only illness of absence from Cambridge excuses a student's attendance at one of the schools. In such case the University recommends Manter Hall, Briggs, Parker-Cramer--almost any of the six except Wolff...
...Wolff, Harvard '29, magna cum laud in anthropology, set up his school in Beck Hall in 1930, but soon had to move to bigger quarters. Large and generally unshaven, he shouts his lectures, throws erassers at sleepy students tells stories about Peter his pet champanzee and despite official disapproval--gets most of Harvard's patronage...
...Duke's hostess is beauteous onetime Miss Catharine Wolff of Philadelphia, rated "one of the 20 best-dressed women in the world." She was Protestant with her first husband (a Mr. Spotswood), Roman Catholic with her second (an Austrian count), and espoused the Jewish persuasion to marry her present Rothschild. Queen Victoria piously claimed that the British Royal Family are descended from Biblical David, "King of the Jews," and it was this which caused "David" to be made not only one of the names of Edward VIII but the name by which his family always called...