Word: beirut
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Professor Arnold, who was born in Beirut, Syria, in 1872, received his degree from Ohio Weslyan University in 1892 and was graduated from the Union Theological Seminary in 1895. The following year he was granted a degree of Ph.D. by Columbia University and became Curator of the Department of Antiquities of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. He taught at the Andover Theological Seminary, and from 1908 to 1922 was Andover Professor of the Hebrew Language and Literature at Harvard. From 1922 to his death he held the Hancock professorship, which is one of the oldest in the University...
...Wilson), was interested not only in copper; he became president of the board of trustees of Robert College, Constantinople. His twin sons have divided between them his interests in copper and oriental education: Cleveland E. is vice-president of Phelp? Dodge; Bayard is president of the American University of Beirut, Syria.† Executive Cleveland E. Dodge is neither the Professional Executive nor the onetime factory hand. He is the Dynastic Executive, bred to his position. The Dynastic Executive is a U.S. rarity; rare also is the inherited ability of Cleveland E. Dodge...
Died. Valentine H. Muller, Manhattan exporter (Muller & Phipps [Asia] Ltd.); of gangrene, contracted in an automobile accident while crossing the Arabian desert; in Beirut, Syria...
...Streets of Night" traces the development of two Harvard undergraduates from the time they entered college until their graduation. The manuscript, which is typewritten, was evidently written by Mr. Dos Passos during his travels as parts of it are dated from such remote places as Beirut, Syria. It is on 214 large sheets and contains many corrections in the author's autograph which show painstaking revision. If one judges from the other markings on the sheets, the printed book itself was set up from them...
...Baynard Dodge, President of Beirut University in Syria, will speak today at the Liberal Club luncheon at 1.30 o'clock...