Word: ansley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Willard Scholarship to Joseph T. McCullough 1G, of Athens, Ohio; Austin Scholarship to Hollis M. Levenson 1GEd, of Cambridge; Phi Delta Kappa Scholarship to R. Vernon Hays 1GEd, of Ansley, Nebraska; and University Scholarships to David A. Grodberg 1GEd, of Worcester; and George B. Simon 1GEd, of Newton Center...
...Everyman's comes in twelve volumes and costs $30, then how can a Michigan farmer afford a first-rate encyclopedia? The tall, taciturn proprietor of one Michigan farm looked over a fence rail at his neighbors and pondered that question. What the U. S. needed, Dr. Clarke Fisher Ansley decided, was a good one-volume encyclopedia...
...Farmer Ansley, onetime professor of English and dean of the College of Fine Arts at Iowa's State University, thought that in 1917 at the age of 48 he had retired for good to raise horses. Back in 1922 he left his farm, moved to Manhattan. Five years later he sold his idea for a new encyclopedia, along with himself as editor, to the Columbia University Press...
Last week Editor Ansley sent his "Z's" to the printer. True to his word, he had crammed a goodly amount of the world's knowledge into one fat volume of 5,000,000 words. To save space he had done away with pictures and paragraphing, abbreviated mountain to mt., county to co. Staff-written, the encyclopedia had required the efforts of some 200 writers. In an off-hand moment Columbia University's President Nicholas Murray Butler, finding the volume good, named it the Columbia Encyclopedia. The Columbia Press priced it at $17.50, promised delivery some time...
Proud is Editor Ansley that his Encyclopedia is up-to-date enough to include Babe Ruth's departure from the Boston Braves last June. Even prouder is he that it covers such neglected U. S. subjects as the Conestoga wagon, lassoing, Turkey in the Straw, Pemaquid...