Word: charlestoned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play is the Harvard prize winner for last year in Professor George Pierce Baker's so-called Workshop. The authoress, Miss Dorothy Heyward, resident of Charleston, S. C, has a gift for dovetailing into her work pretty little tricks of playwriting prestidigitation. But the first act in the aristocratic home is dull and stuffy, and suggests the awful thought that the drawing rooms around Harvard can't be such a much...
...career was as picturesque as his personality, about which innumerable legends survive. He was always a prodigy. Born at Charleston, S. C., in 1831, he translated Anacreon at 12, graduated from Princeton with high honors at 18. He studied in Germany, at Berlin, Bonn, Gottingen, and upon his return became Professor of Greek at the University of Virginia, in 1856. He was called to organize a department of Greek at Johns Hopkins 20 years later, and it was during his 47 years of residence in Baltimore that he made his reputation as a man of prodigious learning and irrepressible...
...collected will be distributed among many charitable institutions, among them Robert College of Constantinople, the Cambridge Welfare Union, the Morgan Memorial and the Salvation Army. Magazines especially will be sent to men on the United States merchant marine and in various sailors' homes and hospitals, such as that at Charleston. Some of the clothing will also be distributed through the Students Aid Association to needy German students, and some, through the Industrial Aid Association and the American Red Cross, to destitute workmen in America...
...Howard Kennedy Beale 1G., of Chicago, Ill., University scholarship; Warren Everett Blake 2G., of Newton, Thayer Fellowship; Harris Marshall Chadwell 2G., of Amesbury, University Scholarship; William Charles Cooper Jr. 1G., of Claremont, Cal., University Scholarship; Nathan Lincoln Drake 2G., of Watertown, Leverett Saltonstall Scholarship; James Harold Easterby 1G., of Charleston, S. C., Thayer Scholarship; Harold Gershom Files 3G., of Roxbury, Thayer Fellowship Bireie Senkar Cuba 8G of Colcutta, India, Hemenway Fellowship; Harry Helson 1G., of Old Town, Me., University Scholarship; John Leslie Hotson 1G., of Cambridge, University Scholarship; Michiel Hendrick de Kock 3G., of Kliphenvel Station, South Africa, Gorham Thomas...
That spectacular race against time that brought Senator Block of West Virginia from California to Charleston with the deciding vote that broke the tie in the West Virginia Senate, practically assures that the women of America will vote next November for President of the United States. With the ratification of the amendment by only two more states, one more milestone in the march of American Democracy will have been passed. The fight that was begun seventy years ago by Susan B. Anthony, that met at first only ridicule, then the active opposition of the conservatives, but gained strength with ever...