In addition to some $100,000,000 worth of monumental benefactions, Edward Stephen Harkness will have two whole issues of Harvard's and Yale's comic magazines to carry his name down to posterity. Upon the announcement last year that he had given $13,000,000 to Harvard for an inner-college House Plan, the Lampoon bitterly denounced Donor Harkness as a destroyer of Old Harvard (TIME, Feb. 18, 1929). He was represented as trying to introduce anglophilic educational methods in a place where U. S. collegiate traditions have flourished for nearly 300 years.
Last week—twelve months later, almost to a...
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