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Would you like the origin of the traditional saying about Mark Hopkins and the log [TIME, Oct. 19]? In addressing the Department of Superintendence of the National Educational Association in Washington, D. C., December 11, 1877, James Abram Garfield said...
...ideal college," said President James Abram Garfield, "is one with Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other...
Awarded. To Mrs. Bertha Gott Smith, 32, who since 1932 has lived apart from Alfred Emanuel Smith Jr., 35, whom she is now suing for separation; by New York's Supreme Court Justice Abram Zoller in Syracuse: $150-a-month alimony...
...Samuel George Boyd were arrested for mayhem, released on bail. On the ground that she was mentally incompetent, Dr. Tillman advised and Dr. Boyd had performed an operation sterilizing Ann Cooper Hewitt, 21, great-granddaughter of the late great Philanthropist Peter Cooper, granddaughter of the late great Statesman Abram Stevens Hewitt, only child of the late great Inventor Peter Cooper Hewitt. The charges were an outgrowth of a $500,000 damage suit which Ann Hewitt, claiming she had been sterilized during an appendectomy because her much-married mother wanted control of a $3,000,000 trust fund left...
...heritage which joined with that of Peter Cooper, Abram Hewitt and Peter Cooper Hewitt to produce her, Ann Cooper Hewitt last week made the following affidavit, which was promptly confirmed by oldtime San Franciscans: "While my mother has always boasted of her Southern aristocracy, she was the daughter . . . of a horsecar driver in San Francisco who lived in a flat over a corner grocery store when she was a girl...