Word: allen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time to face the probability of currency chaos caused by discovery of synthetic gold; heard Professor William Bennett Munro, of Harvard, urge science in politics, denounce "bawling at the voter"; chuckled when Professor Thomas Sewall Adams, of Yale, described the income tax as a "misplaced ideal"; learned from Dr. Allen Johnson, editor of the Dictionary of American Biography, that baseball players and fisticuffers have as good a right in his Dictionary as Congressmen; elected Professor James Henry Breasted, Chicago Orientalist, president of the American Historical Association, James Harvey Robinson, humanizer of knowledge, first vice president; heard various professors explain that...
...collection of books printed by Bruce Rogers was given to the Library by P. J. Sachs '00, as a tribute to Charles Eliot Norton. The Christmas books of this collection are also shown. They include Miss Amy Lowell's copy of the "Christmas Epithalamium," by Hervey Allen. Only 20 copies of this edited were printed, in garamond Italic type with decorations in red. Miss Lowell also collected Christmas cards from the Merrymount Press. These wood engravings by Ruzicika, who is considered the best carver of coloured wood prints in the United States, are a feature of the exhibit...
Team D Harvard 1, Walkover Club 4. C. D. G. Breckinridge '31 defeated Parment, 3-0. Felth defeated A. C. Ingraham '31, 3-2. Burriel defeated N. F. Glidden '31, 3-1. Allen defeated Daniel Merriman, 3-2. Peterson defeated H. G. Bartol...
...Washington's total damage exceeded a million; that Mrs. Jane Carter, Negress, had been killed; that scores had been badly injured; that the Presidential yacht Mayflower had been blown from her moorings and banged against the dock, but was not injured so badly as the U. S. destroyer Allen, lying near, which lost a funnel; that the Naval Air Station at Anacostia had lost a hangar, suffered damage to eight planes and seen its men blown about and rolled across the flying field...
Great indeed was the responsibility of the five businessmen made trustees of the Juilliard Musical Foundation; but they turned most of it over to Dr. Eugene Allen Noble, onetime Methodist minister, onetime president of Goucher College and also of Dickenson College, who was made Executive Director...