Word: cecil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Several books have also been written by professors here who are not Harvard graduates. Among these authors are Laurence E. Binyon. Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, Raymond Leslie Buell, visiting lecturer in international Relations, and Cecil K. Drinker, professor of Philology...
Their leader last week was Lord Hugh Cecil, member of a famed Anglo-Catholic family, brother of Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil and of the grey-bearded Bishop of Exeter. Lord Hugh announced he would promote a suit against Bishop David before the Archbishop of York, if someone would supply legal evidence of the Bishop's misdeeds. Exclaimed Lord Hugh: "If a Unitarian may preach under a Bishop's authority, who can reasonably complain about departures from the text of the prayerbook? We shall hardly be able to resist the polemics of the Roman Catholics when they tell...
Married. Elizabeth Sturgis Grew, 21, youngest daughter of U. S. Ambassador to Japan Joseph Clark Grew; and Cecil Burton Lyon, 30, third secretary of the U. S. embassy in Tokyo; in Tokyo, day after an automobile driven by Secretary Lyon knocked down and killed an old Japanese woman...
...finalists, four men and four women, went through their paces: three deadstick landings to a spot, two loops, a spin, two Immelman turns, two snap rolls-not prodigious feats, but calling for skill. Neatest performance was made by a woman, Mrs. Cecil W. ("Teddy") Kenyon of Waban, Mass. Pretty, blonde wife of a former transport pilot, Mrs. Kenyon received $5,000 and the title of champion airwoman. Not so good as Mrs. Kenyon at spot landings, but unsurpassed at aerobatics was an engaging young man named Felix William ("Bill") Zelcer, proprietor of Manhattan's famed White Horse Tavern...
...Smith; oldtime Basso David Bispham; Artist Maxtield Parrish; onetime Vice President Walter Morris Hart of the University of California; Commissioner of Education Jose Padin of Puerto Rico: President Thomas Sovereign Gates of the University of Pennsylvania (Haverford ex-'93); Professor Henry Joel Cadbury of Bryn Mawr and Dr. Cecil Kent Drinker of Harvard Medical School. The last two and Author Morley were given honorary Litt. D. degrees at last week's celebration...