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...Honeymoon (by Anne Nichols & Alford Van Ronkel; Anne Nichols, producer) is the first drama to bear the Nichols auctorial stamp since this phenomenal show woman wrote and produced Abie's Irish Rose in 1922. That theatrical miracle, thoroughly damned by critics, struggled along at cut-rate prices for six months, then suddenly got second wind and ran for five years on Broadway, setting an all-time record of 2,532 performances. Abie's Irish Rose made Play wright Nichols an estimated $6.000,000. In California, where she still putters at playwriting and raises alligator pears, she no longer...
...administrative board representing the two schools will have charge of the work for the new degree. It is to be made up of President Conant, George H. Chase '96, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, William E. Hocking '01, Alford Professor of Philosophy, William C. Graustein '09, Professor of Mathematics, Richard M. Gummere '07, Chairman of the Committee on Admissions, Henry W. Holmes '03, Dean of the Graduate School of Education, Francis T. Spaulding '16, Assistant Professor of Education, and Howard E. Wilson, assistant Professor of Education...
William E. Hocking, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity will deliver the annual Ingersoll Lecture on the Immortality of Man at the Harvard Divinity School next April...
...Harvard faculty since 1914. He graduated from Harvard in 1901, and received his Ph.D. in 1904; in 1902-03 he was Harvard Fellow in the Universities of Gottingen, Berlin, and Heidelberg. He has taught at the Universities of California, Princeton, and Yale, and since 1920 has been Alford Professor here...
...years, Bert Acosta was back in the air. The Department of Commerce, convinced of his reformation, finally lifted its ban, granted him a "learner's permit." After five hours solo, the best living pilot was scheduled this week to take his flight test for a transport license. Said Alford J. ("Al") Williams, famed onetime Navy stunt pilot: "Aviation needs Acosta badly. Seeing him take a ship off the ground is the best eye tonic I've had in years...