Word: ashley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Columbia University was advertising, seemingly with record enterprise, the degrees it has to confer upon correspondence students. Newspaper displays made it appear as though famed Professors John Dewey (philosophy), Michael Idvorsky Pupin (science), Ashley H. Thorndike and John Erskine (literature), and peers would personally supervise the work of unseen disciples, send them their marks, write them advice, send pearls of erudition by rural free delivery. Shrewd customers; however, did not raise their hopes so high. They well knew that, like the Universities of Chicago, Wisconsin, California and other institutions conducting extension courses, Columbia must find mail-order pedagogy in such...
...four men in the semi-finals two were Columbia Grammar entries, one came from Loomis and the fourth from St. Georges. Cox, the St. Georges semi-finalist won his way into the next to last round by defeating Ashley Thorndike of Exeter, 7-5, 6-3, and Shields of Columbia Grammar topped Halloway of Exeter, 14-112, 6-4 to make his way into the quartet...
...relieved when she went away ? and stricken spiritually dead when, after he had married Mildred Ashley, he learned that Nina had gone away to bear his son. By then his marriage was a failure, though he did not know that it failed because he would have been revolted to find in a fellow aristocrat like Mildred the passion he sought in life. And by then Mildred too was carrying a son of his. They had to stay married...
...George Tappan Francis Jr. '28, of Boston, Edward Bass Hall '28, of Cambridge, Arthur Andrews Holbrook '28, of Milwaukee, Wis., Thorndike Dudley Howe Jr. '28, of Boston, Robert Ingle Hunneman '28, of Brookline, William Barksdale Jones '28, of Vaughan, Miss., David Arms Lomasney '28, of Toledo, Ohio, William Ashley Magie '28, of Chicago, Ill., Albert Henry O'Neil '28, of Jamaica Plain, James Lawrence Pool '28, of New York, N. Y., and William Gordon Saltonstall '28, of Readville, Mass...
...William Ashley Magie of Chicago...