Word: abbotts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...13?Seminar concerning relations of Catholics, Jews and Protestants at Harvard University. Speaker: President Abbott Lawrence Lowell...
...Seminar concerning relations of Catholics, Jews and Protestants at Harvard University. Speaker: President Abbott Lawrence Lowell...
...Columbia University, and President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard went to the University of the State of New York (Albany) to receive LL. D.'s, at the college's 65th annual convocation. Said Harvard's Lowell: "The aim or goal [of American education] should be as remote as possible, consistently with its being not so far off that thought of it can be postponed for the present." Said Columbia's Butler: "If parents are to turn over the entire training of their children to school teachers and to abdicate their own just authority and responsibility...
...Indianapolis, one M. J. Abbott, golfing, tried for a birdie. When the ball landed on the fairway, a crow swooped down, snatched the ball in its beak, flew away. "It's a birdie," said Golfer Abbott's merry companions...
...this has been the Brown custom on such occasions. After the Sheriff came a faculty member bearing the university's golden mace, not so old a custom, the mace having been acquired two years ago. Dr. Barbour and Chancellor Arnold Buffum Chace came next. Close behind was Dr. Abbott Lawrence Lowell, for without a Harvard President present, no Brown President has ever taken office. Under the U. S. and Rhode Island flags, further back in the line, strode Governor Norman Stanley Case (Brown 1908) surrounded by his staff. Followed many a statesman, jurist and nearly three-score college presidents...