Word: shaler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first selections he rendered "A Parting in April," written by Robert S. Hillyer '17, assistant professor of English, in memoriam to LeBaron Russell Briggs '75, and his own "Tribute to Dean Shaler...
...Harvard last week was Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. who arrived with a bodyguard. The freshmen were greeted by Charles Francis Adams. Harvard overseer who counseled: "To be a success you must be among the fittest, for they shall survive." And he quoted Harvard's late Dean Nathaniel Southgate Shaler who used to warn Theodore Roosevelt: "It is a good plan not to make more of a damn fool of yourself than God Almighty intended you should...
...good plan not to make more of a damn fool of yourself than God Almighty intended," was the advice with which, quoting a telegram sent to the late President Theodore Roosevelt by the late Dean N. S. Shaler, the Honorable Charles Francis Adams '88 opened his address to the Freshmen in the Union last night. Mr. Adams was introduced by Delmar Leighton '19, Dean of Freshmen, following the buffet supper. The other speakers were A. C. Hanford, Dean of the College and the Reverend Willard Learoyd Sperry...
...aristocracy, who pay their dues and take their D's, the middle class, who find their sex at Radcliffe and Wellesley, and the working classes, grade grubbers. In so far as it is discernible, their attitude seems to be that brewed at the tea tables of Brattle street and Shaler Lane, a prim pursing of the lips at the mention of kidnapping, deb-chasing or codfishing, and a muttered "boys will be boys...
...unlimited energy and his desire to be fair in all things. A few excerpts from the chapter on his Harvard days will serve to show to what absurd extremes the authors go to illustrate their points. They give a list of the most prominent professors of the time James, Shaler, Briggs, Palmer, Norton, and Lowell and attempts to prove that the young Roosevelt was directly influenced by every one of them. Then, in such an atmosphere Franklin revelled. His interest was whetted to cutting edge and he sliced his way with all the Hyde Park-Groton directness straight...