Word: barbour
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ordinary snakes were not sufficient to lend local color to the movie the University Film Foundation was planning to take of Dr. Thomas Barbour '06, director of the University Museum. So an eight foot python which has been loaned to the Museum by the Bronx Zoo will be requested to post with the director...
...Barbour is probably the greatest authority on serpents in the world. He can handle the poisonous varieties with ease, as he demonstrated last Spring before the meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs in Philadelphia. So the Film Foundation, which is attempting to obtain a true picture of college life, took advantage of the coming of the snake to get Dr. Barbour in a characteristic pose...
...fear I am known to TIME merely as "one" Original Subscriber Brown. But I consider myself a "potent" cover-to-cover reader. Therefore, I rise to hail as "able" and soon to become "famed" The Voter's Dream cartoon in this week's TIME. Verily Cartoonist Barbour has drawn the "tycoon" of cartoons! To him "all praise," and to rival cartoonists a "thoroughgoing rebuke." My "shrewd" purpose in writing this letter is to offer you $100 for the original of The Voter's Dream. I "view with alarm" the possibility that some other subscriber may offer...
...Brown alumni & undergraduates came news last week that Parson Faunce, reaching the retirement age of threescore years and ten and unrecovered from a sickness of three years ago, would be succeeded by another parson ? Doctor Clarence Augustus Barbour. Parson Barbour, staunch Baptist, prominent Rochester divine, President of Rochester Theological Seminary, will assume administrative duties in June...
...Paul's in New Hampshire, an enlarged chapel, a new dining hall, gift of late Henry Chalfant, a manual training shop from Mr. John E. Barbour...