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...sixth of a series of Monday afternoon lectures being conducted for the benefit of the Radcliffe Endowment Fund, Professor J. D. M. Ford '94 will speak today on "Hispanic America". Tickets for the lecture, which will be held in the New Lecture Hall at 4.30 o'clock, may be secured for $1.50 at the door by those who have not purchased tickets for the entire series. The lecture is open to the public...
Directly after his graduation Professor Ford was an instructor in French at the University, holding this position from 1895 to 1900, with the exception of one year which he passed as a Harris fellow in residence at the University of Paris. After two years as instructor in romance languages, he became an assistant professor in 1902, and in 1907, Smith Professor of the French and Spanish Languages, which position he still holds. Since 1911 Professor Ford has been chairman of the Department of Romance Languages of Harvard University and Radcliffe College, but in 1921 went as an exchange professor...
...work with high seriousness. I just managed to catch hold of his coattails and detain him for a few moments. This respite was doubtless between the writing of a syndicate poem and the sending out of a radio broadcast. He then took me for a ride in the Ford car which was presented to him by the great manufacturer himself. Riding with Eddie Guest in Detroit is almost like walking down Fifth Avenue with Douglas Fairbanks...
...Henry Ford: "In the coal mines that I picked up in Pond Creek, West Virginia, the other day, I am paying the miners 20% more than any other non-union field in the state...
Lord Leverhulme, soap magnate and ex-Minister of Munitions: "Thomas Kennedy, Secretary of the Social Democratic Federation, contested my statement that a man can earn ?100,000 a year. I pointed to Henry Ford and said...