Word: benjamin
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Died. Dr. Benjamin Ide Wheeler, 72, president emeritus of the University of California; in Vienna; after long illness...
Other busts to be unveiled and added to the Hall of Fame, on the campus of New York University, will be those of J. J. Audubon, naturalist; Admiral D. G. Farragut; Benjamin- Franklin; Washington Irving, historian and essayist; and Mary Lyon, pioneer in the education of women and founder of Mount Holyoke College...
Married. Katharine Green Macrae, daughter of John Macrae, president of E. P. Button & Co. (publishers); to Benjamin Stuart Tongue of Baltimore; in Manhattan...
...felt the vast age and oneness of life. It amused him to say that since his direct ancestors numbered millions 30 generations ago, therefore he was descended from the entire English-speaking race. Running up his family tree eight branches he would drop down two and land on Benjamin Franklin, "the bourgeois." The Nile, he would say, is an upstart compared to the Mississippi. Five-toed little Eohippus lived for him in his farm horse, Daisy...
...Bates '28; G. E. Bennett 28; T. S. Berry '27; H. A. Blackmun 29; P. J. W. Bove '29; W. B. Bradbury '29; Jacob Brem '27; R. L. Brittain '29 Mayer Brody '28; L. S. Bryant '29; K. M. Caper-Johnson '27; O. R. Carlson '28; Benjamin Castleman '27; F. C. Chace '27; A. C. Chase '29; A. T. Child Jr. '72; H. L. Clarke '28; H. I. Cobb 3d. '29; R. A. Colby '27; E. L. Cramer '29; J. R. Creel '27; R. G. Crevier '28; N. R. Danielian '28; Charles Danzig '29; Everett Dashoff '28; I. A. Dinerman...