Word: asa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard collection is considered the most authoritative in the world in plants of the United States and South America, and is very strong in Arctic and Mexican flora. The Herbarium was founded in 1864 when Asa Gray, pioneer American botanist, gave his private collection of more than 200,000 specimens to Harvard...
...task of bringing world news of a great European embroilment was the first task to fall on shoulders of Hugh Baillie, U. S. C. '15, and journalism student who made good . . . new president or United Press . . . winner in June of the U. S. C. Asa V. Call trophy given to graduate attaining most out standing recognition in his field...
...contributing to the Mark Twain Centennial, Librarian Asa Don Dickinson of Brooklyn College made public the full text of a letter written by the humorist in 1905. Librarian Dickinson, then of the Brooklyn Public Library, had forwarded a complaint by the young woman in charge of his Children's Department that Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn were mischievous and deceitful examples for children. Replied Author Twain...
...impressed with the future of technology was Asa Packer of Mauch Chunk, richest man in Pennsylvania, that in 1866 he founded Lehigh University. Spread over a hillside above smoky Bethlehem, Lehigh has always made a specialty of engineering. Founder Packer would have beamed last week upon the election as Lehigh's president of Clement Clarence Williams, 53, dean of the College of Engineering at University of Iowa, once an active civil engineer. Succeeding Dr. Charles Russ Richards, President-elect Williams will take office October...
...fine piece of respectable pressagentry accounts for the prestige of the Princeton Invitation Track Meet, most notable event of its sort to be founded since the War. After swift William Robert ("Bonny") Bonthron (Class of 1934) turned Princeton's eyes once more to track & field events, Graduate Manager Asa Smith Bushnell and freckled, good-natured Publicity Director Frederick Spring Osborne hit upon the idea of staging a post-season track meet in Palmer Stadium for the elite. So well was the idea promoted that no less than 40,000 spectators turned up in the concrete horseshoe one blistering afternoon...