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But the lawyers of Rockefeller Center were better than artists at word logic. The latter, unwilling to tar themselves with Rivera's Communist brush, had muted their real indignation against the destruction of a fine work of art, on whatever grounds. Their boycott, they insisted, was based on destruction...
I notice on p. 41 of your issue dated Feb. 5, under Medicine referring to the "Case of George Washington, Esq." the following statement:
Began President Conant: "An eventful and significant epoch in Harvard history has closed." That epoch dated back to 1909 when Charles William Eliot turned over to President Lowell a Harvard faculty unrivaled in intellectual prestige. Under the ambitious, Aladdin-like administration of President Lowell Harvard grew big and rich. Its...
SUPPLEMENT TO THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY-Edited by W. A. Craigie & C. T. Onions-Oxford "($40). Five years ago occurred one of those great literary events which few editors consider newsworthy: The Oxford English Dictionary, begun in 1857. was finished. Last month this No. i Dictionary of the English-American...
The founding of Harvard College is most commonly dated from October 28, 1636, when the General Court of Massachusetts Bay "agreed to give 400 pounds toward a schoale or colledge." This college, the first in the English colonies, was opened in the summer of 1638, and promptly named Harvard College...