Word: bostonians
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...charge of nine separate faculties, more than 3,000 teachers and scholars, and 10,155 students, not counting a swarm of Radcliffe girls ("We are not coeducational in theory," said former President Conant, "only in practice"). He is the first non-New Englander and the second non-Bostonian* ever to achieve his position. More remarkable, he was born and bred in Iowa (a place that Boston dowagers have allegedly been calling "Ohio"). His present position therefore represents quite a leap, for Harvard can still remember the days when the movements of its presidents had an aura all their...
Paul C. Cabot '21: A banker and Bostonian, he has been Treasurer of the College since 1948, and is the only Corporation member voting for the president who is not a Fellow...
...popular break in House routine is the Thursday dinners to which Hammond and his wife, careful that each House member is sometime invited, ask several students. Hammond met his wife in 1935 "very properly in Louisburg Square as befits a Bostonian," though she was a native of New Orleans. "Any warmth in the House," Hammond says, a little proudly, "comes from my wife." But, while House members attest to Mrs. Hammond's engaging personality, they usually add that Hammond under-rates his own influence. With his hearty voice and his sincere manner, The Mace has brought a warmth to Kirkland...
When it did finally come. Conant's election was a precedent breaking one not because he was a chemist Eliot had been one but because he was a commoner, an unproper Bostonian. As the CRIMSON editorialized. "Conant is a man who has to a large extent risen from the ranks, and who is not a member of that aristocracy represented by the Eliot Lowell binary...
...administrative liberation of the University's departments. When he first came into office President Emeritus Lowell would drop in for a friendly chat every once in a while to see how his youthful successor was coming along. On one of these visits Lowell, using his most sonorous Bostonian tone, proclaimed, "As president you will be surrounded on all sides by wolves trying to tear off bits of the University. It is the first duty of the president to resist pressure...