Word: bayard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the vicinity of Cape Henry, Va., 3,300 plants were sent to the Herbarium by Ludlow Griscom, research curator in Zoology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. Bayard Long, of the Philadelphia Academy of Science, and John M. Fogg of the University of Pennsylvania. Under Professor Fernald's direction the Harvard botanical staff have been collecting extensively in the Virginia coastal region for the past three summers and have obtained about 10,000 specimens...
...went to Harvard in the same class (1900) with, three other young men who grew up to be eminent U. S. diplomats by profession, William R. Castle Jr., Robert Woods Bliss, Peter Augustus Jay. Billy Phillips' career matched his endowments. After college a classmate and a fellow Porcellian, Bayard Cutting, elder brother of the late Senator from New Mexico, went to London as private secretary to U. S. Ambassador Joseph H. Choate. Tiring of diplomacy, Cutting in 1903 suggested Phillips as his successor. Two years later William Woodville Rockhill, U. S. Minister to China, met the suave and elegant...
Swooping down on the annual charity performance of the Society of Illustrators, Manhattan police found five naked girls prancing on the stage, hung coats over them, bundled them off to jail for indecency. The male audience, including Herbert Bayard Swope, Courtney Ryley Cooper, Rube Goldberg, Otto Soglow and Arthur William Brown, at first thought the police were actors, laughed uproariously when they announced the show was closed. Then, indignant, many an illustrator traipsed off to court, asked why he should not see nude girls in a show when he painted the same nude girls daily in studios...
...total of $2400 in scholarships was awarded to three graduate students and an instructor, it was announced yesterday. The recipients are Rechard Tousey, of Somerville, instructor in Physics, who received the Bayard Cutting Fellowship for Research in Physics; F. Wolffgang Stolper 2G, of New York, who received a Special University Fellowship...
...from the high plateaus of New Mexico last week trod the unfamiliar pavements of Manhattan's socialite East Seventies. They were drawn there to the home of Mrs. William Bayard Cutting by the most dramatic Senatorial demise since the late Senator Walsh dropped dead two days before his elevation to the Cabinet. If Bronson Murray Cutting had died fortnight ago of prosaic disease in a prosaic bed, instead of meeting violent death in an airplane, his exit from the political stage would still have been dramatic. For like Mercutio he died an early death while the play...