Word: barbour
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Inauguration of Dr. Clarence Augustus Barbour as tenth president of Brown University. Oct. 25-Columbia University begins six-day celebration of its 175th anniversary...
President Lowell and President Angoll of Yale will be among "the speakers of the universities, colleges, and leading preparatory schools which will be represented by delegates at the inauguration of Dr. G. A. Barbour as' tenth president of Brown University, on October 18. At the alumni gathering for the new president, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., of New York, will present the greetings of the graduates...
...TIME, I am very glad indeed to see that you propose to limit the number of pages. You can give your advertisers more display in a limited number of pages than you can give them in double spreads in a magazine made up of innumerable pages. F. E. BARBOUR Beech-Nut Packing Co. Canajoharie, N.Y. Sirs: Being a cover-to-cover reader I am in favor of keeping the number of pages down. FRED A. ROBBINS, INC. Chicago...
...absurd." Russell ("Lena") Blackburne, manager of the Chicago "White Sox" (American League) baseball team, reached for a telephone after arguing unsuccessfully in a Philadelphia hotel with his husky, young, inebriated first baseman, Art Shires. Infuriated, Baseman Shires wrecked the room, blacked Blackburne's eye,- also pummelled Lou Barbour, the club secretary. Baseman Shires was suspended from the White Sox. Charles Francis Adams Jr., Harvard student, son of the Secretary of the Navy, was arrested for speeding at Old Saybrook, Conn. He did not mention in court his illustrious relationship. Fine: $1. Max Siegfried Adolf Otto Schmeling, pugilist, driving...
Happy Folks. Peter Pan's happy light flitted about Columbia's Teachers' College. Professor Goodwin Barbour Watson there trapped it under the lattice bushel of his studies. "In general." said he, "the happy student is likely to be a healthy, popular, married man who thinks that he can tell a joke well, lead a discussion, act in a play, talk on sex, or lead a group. . . . He has had a harmonious home, enjoys his job, prefers adventure to peace, responsibility to direction. Not essential to happiness are intelligence, race, nationality, self-support, religious participation, ability in algebra, cleverness in writing...