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...service goes back to Alumnus-Professor-President Woodrow Wilson, to Grover Cleveland, longtime trustee and lecturer, and finally to the great years between 1769 and 1812. From exactly 1,000 men whom Princeton graduated in those years the U. S. chose one President (James Madison), two Vice Presidents (Aaron Burr and George Mifflin Dallas), six Continental Congressmen, 31 U. S. Senators, 48 U. S. Representatives, 21 State Governors, four U. S. Cabinet members, seven U. S. and State Supreme Court Justices. That took 43 years. But by 1944 President Dodds and the rest of the country should know whether Princeton...
ALICE JAMES: HER BROTHERS, HER JOURNAL-ed. by Anna Robeson Burr- Duffield &Green ($2.50). Well-edited story of the invalid sister of the (Boston) James boys...
Included in the Junior nominations are: Robert S. Brookings, II, Francis H. Burr, Eliot D. Cantor, Robert B, Cutter, Samuel S. Durry, Jr., Richard W. Emory, Charles K. Howard, Osborne F. Ingram, Randolph A. Kidder, Thomas F. Locke, Donald V. McGranahan, Francis D. Moore, Arthur S. Pier, Jr., Sumner Rodman, Arthur W. Todd, and Charles F. Woodward...
...banking until the branch of the Bank of the United States was established in 1791. Its first private competitor originated with a bright young man who had just begun to realize the possibilities of a new organization known as Tammany Society. With a fine show of public spirit, Aaron Burr promoted a water system for the city. In the charter for his Manhattan Co. he inserted a clause permitting it to engage in "moneyed transactions." A few of the people's representatives suspected a ruse but Burr talked vaguely of "trade with the Indies" and the charter was granted...
Manager Francis H. Burr '35 and Captain Herman Gundlach '35 expect that more than 60 men will report for the spring work. The practice will run for two weeks, and will be resumed again after the spring recess for two more weeks...