Word: canfields
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...became Viscount Cecil of Chelwood.? Now, in the 39th year of his public service, a distinguished U. S. jury ? Dr. Charles W. Eliot, President Emeritus of Harvard; Judge Florence E. Allen of the Ohio Supreme Court; Dr. James R. Angell, President of Yale; Authoress Dorothy Canfield Fisher; Publicist Raymond B. Fosdick; David F. Houston, member of Wilson's Cabinet; Financier Thomas W. Lament; Henry Noble Mac-Cracken, President of Vassar; Authoress Ida M. Tarbell ? appointed by the Board of Trustees of the Wilson Foundation, has unanimously selected him from 100 nominees to receive a prize...
...Benjamin Cardozo, Justice of the New York Court of Appeals, and Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University-was inaugurated last week Dean of the Faculty of the School of Law of Columbia University. Dean Jervey retired a year ago from the Manhattan law firm of Satterlee. Canfield & Stone to become a professor in the Columbia Law School. In charge of the instruction in the courses in Personal Property and Trusts,- he quickly made his alert personality felt by students and faculty. Born in Charleston, S. C, in 1879, he was educated at the Charleston High School (1896), Charleston College...
...following estimates of books much in the public eye were made after careful consideration of the trend of critical opinion: THE HOME-MAKER-Dorothy Canfield-Harcourt Brace ($2.00). Wearily Lester Knapp lay down at night, and in the morning roused up wearier. He hated his job in the dry-goods store, and was a failure at it. His wife scrubbed the floor, harangued the children, cooked the food, ate her heart out. On the day Knapp lost his position he came home to find his house on fire; he climbed up on the icy roof, praying that he would slip...
...Bread Loaf Inn, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt. She is poet, novelist, essayist. Those of you who read The Atlantic Monthly know her work well. I had always heard of her as one of the group of writers who live near or in Manchester, Vt.?a friend of Dorothy Canfield Fisher and of Robert Frost. In Who's Who you will find that she was born in Virginia?a mere accident of birth, for she is a Vermonter through and through. Her family happened to be wintering in Virginia in 1876. She was born, as a matter of fact...
Every year a committee, consisting of a churchman (Bishop John Hurst), a writer (Dorothy Canfield Fisher), a politician (Theodore Roosevelt), a financier (James H. Dillard), an educator (John Hope, President of Morehouse College), and an editor (W. E. DuBois of The Crisis'), awards a prize to "an American of African descent who has performed the highest achievement in some form of human endeavor." This prize is known as the Spingarn medal...