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Smith's Neilson today seems to Smith's 2,000 girls and their parents the very model of a modern college president, although his strong opinions have occasionally differed from those of many Smith alumnae. He went to Northampton in 1917 from an English professorship at Harvard, where his tall German wife Elizabeth had been snubbed by War-minded faculty wives. Stanchly liberal, Dr. Neilson defended Sacco & Vanzetti, early advocated the recognition of Russia, invited such figures as Bertrand Russell and Harold Laski to speak at Smith...
Just 120 years ago, in 1817, Ward Nicholas Boylston founded two Boylston Prizes for Elocution in honor of his uncle, Nicholas Boylston, who established the professorship which bears his name today. The awards stipulated a competition open to seniors, Juniors, and Sophomores in good standing in Harvard College, to be decided by finalists in an annual contest. Tonight, well over a century later, ten Harvard undergraduate finalists will do verbal battle in the Music Building for these prizes, and for their more recent counterpart, the Lee Wade Prize, founded...
Letters from President Conant and ex-President Lowell in favor of the plan to raise $350,000 for a fund to endow a professorship in honor of Dean Roscoe Pound, were read at a meeting of the Council of the Law School Alumni Association last night...
...alumni who were back of the move. "This undertaking," he said, "on the part of a group of loyal alumni of the Harvard Law School is most welcome to me as president of the University. The fund which you are proposing to raise for the endowment of a professorship will be, of course, a most acceptable addition to the University's resources: but more important, from my point of view, is the fact that this fund is to be raised in honor of Dean Pound, one of the most distinguished scholars of the University, and a man who has done...
Pound, vacationing in the Orient, will return to Cambridge next September. No comment was forthcoming from University officials on the creation of the new professorship, nor any possible occupant of the new chair...