Word: d
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must to all men, Death came to William Cullen Bryant ("Doc") Kemp, 78, A. B., A. M., M. D., LL, M., LL. B., Ph. D., C. E, E. E., Mech. E., E. M., Pharm. Chem., B. S., so-called "perpetual student" of Columbia University; in Manhattan last week. Dr. Kemp was a native of Janesville, Wis. When he was a lazy Columbia freshman, relatives promised him $2,500 for each year he remained at the University. He stayed 60 years. Always he mingled with undergraduates, went to proms, games, etc. Callow classmates gave him the special degree of D...
Married. Ernestine Altman, orphan niece of famed Manhattan Lawyer Max D. Steuer ("Belasco of the Bar"); and Leonard Golding, Manhattan broker; in New York City Hall, by Mayor James John Walker. It was the fourth time Mayor Walker had performed such a ceremony. He absented himself from a discussion of city transit unification. Said he: "Since this is another unification job, I don't think I can be accused of shirking the city's business...
...Event was Commander Byrd's successful flight to inspect some 10,000 square miles of Antarctica in a Fairchild monoplane with Pilot Bernt Balchen and Radioman Harold I. June. They saw some mountain peaks no one had seen before and decided to name them for John D. Rockefeller Jr.,* one of the heavy contributors to the expedition's fund. They named one peak for the expedition's cook, George Tennant, and seeing a bay in the ice barrier, "said Commander Byrd, "to name it Hal Flood Bay, after my mother's brother...
Professor Ben D. Wood of the Educational Research Department at Columbia is the originator of the "Cumulative Education Record Forms." He, friend of English Master John A. Lester of The Hill, spoke to him about his forms, how they could help the school, how the college might be aided by them in its annual selection of potential freshmen. Dr. Lester and Headmaster Wendell benefited much from Dr. Wood's "cumulative forms" in devising the Hill method of recording progress and achievement...
...pound class: T. O. Frazier '31 defeated D. R. Dorman '32, by decision...