Word: accounts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this Helen Keller, living now in Forest Hills, L. I, last week were sent three thick volumes from the New York Public Library. We, famed Colonel Lindbergh's account of his most famed escapade, had been translated into braille type for blind readers; these were the first impressions of the translation. Helen Keller read them slowly because, carrying her police dog puppy downstairs a few days before, she had fallen and hurt her arms. A dog sat beside her as she read, looking with bright uncomprehending eyes at the book she held. Last May, when the world...
...probable that Major J. R. Wogan, University polo mentor, will use J. P. Mandel '29, who has been out of the game for several weeks on account of illness, in place of R. B. Burnett ocC, during the second half...
...Richard P. Strong Fund, "for the study and teaching of Tropical Medicine in Harvard University" 100,000.00 Anonymous: For research and instruction in abnormal and dynamic psychology $25,113.01 George F. Baker, Hon. '26: Graduate School of Business Administration for endowment 573,392.89 Estate of E. D. Barbour: On account of his bequest, "to Harvard University for the general purposes of the University" 742,232.00 Estate of R. D. Bell: His bequest, the "income . . . shall be expended for the benefit of the Department of Biological Chemistry . . . in the Harvard Medical School" 100,000.00 Carnegie Corporation of New York: Fellowships...
...Whitelaw Reid, social bigwig. Said Bishop Manning: "We are living in very interesting times. . . . Great movements are going on all about us. ... I want to say that I hope no one will feel in the least discouraged or doubtful as to the progress of the movement [for union] on account of any pronouncement that may come from anywhere, even though it might seem unfortunate at the moment...
...written by the heroine, in which she informs the hero that he will have to marry her because she is in trouble. Wallace Beery also confesses in a subtitle that he is not to blame for having been born a month too soon. Wife Savers, despite or perhaps on account of such careless coarseness, is quite consistently laughable...