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Cornell University has given only two honorary degrees in its entire history-to Andrew Dickson White, co-founder and first president of Cornell, and to David Starr Jordan, now president emeritus of Stanford University. State universities, as a rule, are chary of granting honorary degrees. For example, the University of Minnesota has honored only its president emeritus, William Watts Folwell...
Died. Herbert Lloyd, 67, president of the Electric Storage Battery Co. ("Exide," "Willard"); in Bryn Mawr; after a long illness...
Died. Sir David Yule, 69, "richest Scotch merchant," widower parent of Miss Gladys Yule, 24, to whom he leaves 20 million pounds; at London. Son-in-law of the late Andrew Yule of Calcutta, India, Sir David prodigiously expanded the firm of Andrew Yule & Co., Ltd., and founded 80 adidtional firms in which he retained controlling interest. In 1926 he contributed largely to an unselfish syndicate of liberals who purchased the Daily Chronicle from David Lloyd George at a price which netted the Welshman $14,500,000 profit and under an agreement whereby Liberal Lloyd George still controls the policy...
...John Pierpont Morgan stood, last week, at the corner of Broad and Wall streets, Manhattan, he doubtless noted that increasing the size of the private dining room of J. P. Morgan & Co. is altering the Wall street skyline. But he had no fears that the great House of Morgan would become top-heavy, tumble. Its four stories rest on foundations built to support thirty...
...Cora Bennett, unable to live on her pension as widow of famed Air Pilot Floyd Bennett, peddles life insurance policies in Brooklyn. Last week, she sold her first policy. The purchaser: Charles H. Colvin, of the Pioneer Instrument Co., manufacturers of instruments used by Aviator Bennett flying to the North Pole...