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...winners are: Lewis McA. Branscomb 2G, Wayland C. Griffith '45 2G, Peter MacNair 2G, Peter H. Nash 1G, Henry H. McR. Bain, Jr. 1G, Charles Breunig...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grad Students Choose Advisory Committee | 4/9/1948 | See Source »

Last fortnight one of the South's richest private universities (endowment: $30 million) picked a new head man. As fourth chancellor in 71 years, Tennessee's Vanderbilt University chose mild-looking, shy Harvie Branscomb, 51, dean of Duke University's divinity school. Alabama-born Dr. (of Philosophy) Branscomb, onetime Rhodes Scholar, was a World War I friend of Vanderbilt's outgoing chancellor Oliver Cromwell Carmichael, now president of the Carnegie Foundation. They served together in Belgium on the Hoover relief commission. At Duke University, he has been an outstanding leader in the intellectual and moral progress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Rector | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

HARVARD MAINE Baldwin, r.f. l.g., Fitzhugh O'Connell, l.f. r.g., Abbott Green, c. c., Branscomb Barbee, r.g. l.f., Daley Burns, l.g. r.f., Stone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD QUINTET MEETS MAINE FIVE HERE TONIGHT | 2/24/1928 | See Source »

...Branscomb of Anniston, Ala., regarding the possibility of the Democrats' nominating a wet for the Presidency: "My grandfather and my father were Democrats, and if I should vote the Republican ticket they might turn in their graves, but I would do it if the northern Democrats should betray the cause for which we have suffered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Oratory | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

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