Word: bryant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard dormitories, on the day of the Harvard-Yale football game, staff members of The Yale Record, undergraduate funnypaper, planted a spurious edition of The Harvard Crimson, undergraduate daily. Alarmed Harvard-men read that President James Bryant Conant had resigned, would be replaced by Yaleman Robert Maynard Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago. Also headlined was a report that Football Coach Richard Cresson Harlow, who is also a Harvard associate in oology, would become a Yale professor of ornithology because "ornithology has always been my main interest and I have always maintained that birds lay bigger and better eggs...
...facts. Most tangible important fact of last week was the statement (upon being landed safely in Great Britain) of Captain F. C. P. Harris of the freighter Clement, sunk early last month off South America's east coast. Captain Harris and his first engineer, W. Bryant, certified that the Nazi raider which kept them aboard five hours after sinking their Clement was the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer. This identity could still be doubted by people who know that German sailors wear bogus hatbands some of the time, to confuse their victims; but English freighter captains and Scottish engineers...
Although impartial observers claim that over ninety per cent of contemporary newspaper publishers never went out for the Crimson, the fact remains that no less a man than James Bryant Conant (Crimson '13) has been heard to say that--for a certain type of man--the Crimson is more valuable than any regular curricular work. It is unfortunate that Harvard's president never went on to specify what certain type of man he was referring to; however, after delving deep into the depths of its morgue the Crimson board finally is able to clarify this statement...
...Resignations are threatened. Rumor and suspicion, bickering and ill-will are rampant throughout the entire faculty." Harvard's President James Bryant Conant read this disquieting outburst last week in the Harvard Progressive, leftist student monthly. The Progressive exaggerated, but Dr. Conant well knew that the Harvard family was in a quarrelsome mood...
Harvard's James Bryant Conant: "Education as usual should be our slogan. If this seems too tame a slogan for these exciting days, let me remind you . . . that this nation now emerges from chaos as the significant home of the arts, of literature, of scholarship, of science. ... I ... make certain assumptions about the next ten years . . . [that] we are not facing the end of civilization . . . that the devastation of the European war will place a unique burden upon the citizens of this nation to carry forward the culture of our time...