Word: andrews
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...pallbearer for most of his friends. The Author. Hamilton James Ecken rode, 49, unmarried, onetime (1914-16) professor of economics at the University of Richmond, has been State Historian of Virginia since 1927. Rutherford B. Hayes is the first of a series on political leaders, from the time of Andrew Johnson to Herbert Hoover, which Publishers Dodd, Mead will issue, under the editorship of youthful Historian Allan Nevins. Other books by Biographer Eckenrode: History of Virginia During the Reconstruction. Life of Nathan B. Forrest, Jefferson Davis, President of the South...
Alumnus Ward Andrew Neff, vice president of the Chicago Daily Drovers Journal, donor of Jay H. Neff Hall, the journalism school building, for "leadership in agricultural journalism . . . vision and service . . . encouragement of journalistic education...
Lansing, Mich. Sirs: True, Stanford once was proud to be "Cornell of the West." Forty years back, giants like Andrew D. White, Goldwin Smith, pushed the newborn Ithaca University ahead of older American colleges. Coeducational, nonsectarian, first to recognize the sciences and technologies, build laboratories, give "practical" courses, Cornell soon became model for the colleges then being founded in the West, among them Minnesota, Stanford. Then lusty young Cornell seemed to be eclipsing Harvard, Yale. Cornell students came from all over the world to sit at the feet of James Russell Lowell, Louis Agassiz, many another great one. Cornell scientists...
...British Treasury collected a death duty (inheritance tax) of $5,620,000 last week on the estate of $13,985,000 left by Major Andrew Coats, of the famed Paisley thread-spinning family...
...Symphony. To Cincinnati he went in 1909, built up a first-rate orchestra (and a baseball team among the players). While there he married Pianist Olga Samaroff who bore him a daughter, Sonia Maria Noel. His work as conductor soon attracted the attention of Philadelphians, particularly of the late Andrew Wheeler, blue-blooded secretary of the Orchestra. Wheeler felt that Philadelphia also needed some one young, energetic, pliable...