Word: brett
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...growth of less than 80 years, although numerous experiments over small distances had been made in Europe since 1795 and S. F. B. Morse himself had laid a wire from Castle Garden to Governor's Island. A cable across the English Channel was attempted by the Messrs. Brett in 1850. They organized a company and enlisted the coöperation of Cyrus Field in 1854. After repeated failures, a cable was laid from Newfoundland to Valencia Island, Ireland, by vessels proceeding from the middle in both directions. On August 17, 1858, the first message went over the wire : " Europe...
Members of the Committee on Economic Research for next year are: Mr. Charles Francis Adams, Law '15, Mr. Robert Amory '06, Dr. Charles Jesse Bullock, Mr. Frederic Haines Curtiss, Mr. Wallace Brett Donham '98, Mr. Ogden Livingston Mills '05, and Mr. Eugene Van Rensselaer Thayer...
From those sad few of us who are struggling to flee from the Ulysses-Black Oxen-Jurgen mania, Francis Brett Young's latest book draws forth a sigh of relief. In "Pilgrim's Rest" there is realism to be sure, but it deals with the loneliness of the African jungle, and the ups and downs of life in an African gold-mine town. Like its contemporaries got it is outspoken, and yet it leaves one with the comforting feeling that perhaps the present-day light novel has not completely fallen into the hands of a corporation of psycho-sexualists...
...Eagle Sp.G.B., of Pontiac, Mich.; Charles Arthur Glover 2G.B., of Selma, Cal.; Edward Blair Gordon 2G.B., of San Francisco, Cal.; Howard Goodman 2G.B., of Chicago, Ill.; Deane Waldo Malott 2G.B., of Abilene, Kan.; Dave Hennen Morris 2G.B., of New York City; Samuel Francis Nicholson 2G.B., of Richmond, Ind.; Clarence Brett Piper 2G.B., of Belmont; and Henry Meldrum Stevens 2G.B., of Portland...
Calling attention to the tremendous increase in size of the undergraduate business schools of the United States during the past two years, and to the competition to which these schools are subjecting the older four-year liberal arts course, Dean Wallace Brett Donham '99, of the Graduate School of Business Administration, says in his annual report, made public today, that "the future integrity of the old-fashioned college courses depends to an extent little realized" upon graduate school of business, such as that at the University...