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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In prose it is even easier Hardy, of course, would begin, and we might follow him with Doughty (also in line for his poetry) Conrad, and W. H. Hudson. Bear in mind that these are popular and "sell" and also that they are "classics"--beyond a human doubt. De Morgan...

Author: By Maurice Firuski., | Title: A Modern "Gentlemans" Library | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

The following quotation, one of the earliest known references to the "House" plan, is an excerpt from an address made by Charles Francis Adams '88 before the Columbia Phi Beta Kappa on June 12, 1906 in New York City. This address was mentioned by President Lowell in his annual report...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: C. F. Adams '88 Would Have Divided University Into Group of Houses in 1906--Announces Plan in Address at Columbia | 2/12/1929 | See Source »

When the ordinary U. S. citizen thinks of expressing a package or trunk, he may well be excused for thinking of Adams Express or American Express. Yet the arrival of a trunk at either the Adams offices (61 Broadway) or the American offices (65 Broadway) would probably be greeted with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Railway Express | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

Progress of the express business, from a competition between express companies to a railroad-controlled monopoly sanctioned by the Government, began during the War. For just as the railroads were administered by the Government, so the physical properties of the express companies were sold to the then newly-formed American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Railway Express | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

Following them was a group of distinguished professors and Manhattanites. Greetings were exchanged, a few speeches were delivered, everybody admired the ultra-modern German interior decorations. Thus was re opened Columbia's Deutsches Haus, founded in 1910 by Engineer & Financier Edward Dean Adams.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Deutsches Haus | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

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