Word: abraham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have nothing against Yale; I have nothing against Harvard, but I believe that if some millionaire had put Abraham Lincoln in Yale or Harvard, he would never have been placed in Who's Who. The reason for this," he continued, "is that they are over-organized, over-standardized and over-specialized. They suppress genius and put a premium on mediocrity." The New Student
Dean Donham's address will open the subject of the evening. Dr. C. Macfle Campbell, Director of the Boston Psychopathic Hospital, is scheduled to follow him. Sharing the medical side of the presentation with Dr. Campbell will be Dr. Abraham Myerson, Professor of Neurology at the Tufts Medical School. Dr. Elton Mayo, Professor at the Wharton School of Commerce and Finance, will close the discussion...
...There are now 63 names honored in the Hall of Fame, including not only George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, but James Kent, Asa Gray, Mary Lyon, Maria Mitchell, James B. Bads, William T. G. Morton, Alice Freeman Palmer...
...Southerner as any of the "professionals" that live in New York, Texas or elsewhere. My father fought the Yankees for four years and I was nearly grown before I knew that "Damyankee" was two words. Moreover, I am somewhat unreconstructed as yet; I don't believe that Abraham Lincoln was the greatest man in the world and I believe in state rights; in fact I have an idea that I feel about Lincoln and the things we went to war about, just what my father felt back in the sixties...
...four periods Princeton fought itself into a lather on a field as wet as a shampoo, with a ball as slippery as shaving soap, against Colgate. In the last minutes a sophomore from Dayton, Ohio (Abraham Mankat, Colgate) forced a safety by blocking a kick; whereupon his encouraged teammates scored a touchdown that dashed the championship hopes of the last of the Big Three. Score: Colgate 9, Princeton...