Word: allens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...names of Bernard M. Baruch, John Davison Rockefeller Jr., former President Burton of the University of Chicago, President Lowell of Harvard, William Cameron Forbes, onetime (1909-13) Governor-General of the Philippines, were secured as endorsers. A U. S. delegation of 25, headed by Mr. Wilbur and including William Allen White, Prof. George H. Blakeslee, Prof. Jeremiah W. Jenks, Prof. W. W. Willoughby, President Mary E. Woolley of Mt. Holyoke College and others, gathered. Similar efforts were undertaken in other countries?in Australia, Canada, China, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, the Philippines. A list of problems of the Pacific was prepared...
Smith College (for women, at Northampton, Mass.) prolonged her commencement exercises into ceremonies observing the college's 50th anniversary. Said President William Allen Neilson: "I look forward to the time when some enlightened man will leave his money to a college which will offer young men opportunities equal to those offered in the best colleges for young women." A series of lantern slides entitled The Circling Years, accompanied by rhymed comment, showed the "meteoric" growth of Smith from 14 to 2,000 students, showed the evolution of female habiliments from trailing black cambric skirts to bloomers, showed...
...University of Kentucky (Lexington) made honorary doctors of Louis Wiley, Business Manager of The New York Times since 1895; Miss Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge, Dean of the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy. William Allen White, jovial editor of the Emporia (Kan.) Gazette, delivered the commencement address...
...loves, deeds, progeny, businesses of all Biblical characters who amounted to anything-they have been properly set down at last by the Rev. E. Fletcher Allen, M. A., in a book with a cover as blue as the Sea of Galilee entitled Who's Who in the Bible...
...mistake of trying to combine the goldsmith's craft with religion," to Zipporah, "the Midianite wife of Moses," this book embraces many characters that appear in the modern Who's Who under a different guise; several names, indeed, may be found in both books. In the Rev. Allen's, the name of Baruch belongs to "a young nobleman"; Cain, says Author Allen, is the same name as Smith. David gets the most space, nigh four pages; Paul is second, Moses third. Goliath who, says the author, "was probably ten feet high," gets only a paragraph...