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This understanding of the Christian nature of the church is further indicated from the few protests that did treat this aspect of the controversy. "Why should the Christian creed, to the exclusion of all others, be chosen for the memorial?" demanded H. U. Brandenstein '90 of President Lowell in a letter written to the President in 1928. "Harvard University, like the government under which we live, is a lay institution." Lowell replied that he respected this objection, but felt the majority of alumni should have...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, | Title: Memorial Church | 4/19/1958 | See Source »

...Count Brandenstein Zeppelin, director of the Zeppelin works, and Herr Brandenburg, chief of the German Air Ministry, are calmly enjoying their game of dress as Commander Rosendahl of the Los Angeles looks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: First Air Liner | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

Conspicuous among the passengers booked for the Atlantic trip were C. E. Rosendahl, commander of the Los Angeles; Count Brandenstein Zeppelin, 30n-in-law of the late great Count; Herr Brandenburg, chief of the German Air Ministry; Lady Drummond Hay,* Hearst correspondent, who will be the first woman ever to have made such a crossing. During the trial flight she wrote: "It is a strange sensation, sleeping in cabins attached to gas bags swinging 7,000 feet in the air between the full moon and the glassy North Sea. . . . We have a million cubic feet of gas but no heat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Blue Gas & Hydrogen | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

Countess Hella Brandenstein, daughter of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Germany's most distinguished pioneer in aeronautics, tipped a gilded bottle, allowed a stream of liquid air to cascade over the bow of Germany's new giant dirigible; 763 feet long, 102 feet wide, the 117th dirigible built at Friedrichshafen, and the first to be honored with a christening party. Two strips of canvas fell from the hull, revealed the name "Graf Zeppelin." Countess Hella shrilled: "Mit Glueck, Graf Zeppelin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 30, 1928 | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

...following men will have their conference in History 12 on Wednesday: Cobb, Gill, J. L. Lodge, Gambrill Whitcomb, Freeman, Brandenstein, Bryant, Carey, Pond; on Thursday, Wilburt, R. C. Robbins, Follansbee, F. W. Brown, Rowley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/6/1889 | See Source »

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