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Raskob. Potent in the Smith background, financially, psychologically, is John Jacob Raskob, vice president of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co., chairman of the finance committee of the General Motors Corp., "biggest U. S. business man." Mr. Raskob was one of Mrs. Smith's escort home from Houston. Last week Mr. Raskob's son, William F. Raskob II, was killed in a motor smash. Nominee Smith made straight for Centerville, Md., and attended the funeral at the Mother of Sorrows Catholic Church. Beside Nominee Smith walked Mr. & Mrs. Pierre du Pont...
...added to what is ennobling, though it must be remarked, in Producer White's favor, that he tried hard to control his appetite for the esthetic and only in one tedious scene did it master him completely. This was when a group of nuns were used as the background for a rendering of Ave Maria...
...smutty background...
Harvard is so cosely bound to the past by a thousand ties that it may truthfully be said that the undergraduate, or the graduate as well, who is not at least acquainted with its history and rich traditional background, is lacking in a fundamental knowledge if not a thorough appreciation of the College. Nothing drives this home more forcibly than the annual Class Day. To the casual observer it might appear merely another day of meaningless jubilation and glamorous festivity, superficial and transitory. To the initiated, to those who can penetrate beneath the gay laughter, the forced smiles, the whirl...
Commencement Week belongs more to the future than it does to the present. Throughout its duration, the Yard is peopled with the memories of three generations of Harvard men. The contrast of ages, emotions, and purposes supplies an appropriately mingled background for the occasion...