Word: daniells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this time the party was under the leadership of H. H. F. Jayne '21, Curator of Oriental art at the Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia. Dr. Horace Stimson of the Peter Beht Brigham Hospital, R. F. S. Starr, the photographer and Alan Priest '23, tutor in Fine Arts, and Daniel V. Thompson '22, also of the division of Fine Arts, were assisting in their various capacities. Langdon Warner '03, of the Fogg Museum had been delayed in Peking on other business for the college, but joined them some three days after they had been forced to retire from Tun Huang. Messrs. Jayne...
...meeting was in Washington, and 2,500 Boy Scout officials and 2,000 scouts were assembled. In large part Sir Robert Baden-Powell was responsible for the meeting. Although Dan Beard's Sons of Daniel Boone and Ernest Thompson Seton's Woodcraft Indians antedated the boy scout organizations, it was the Boy Scout Organization founded in England by Sir Robert which became the prototype of the Boy Scouts of America, which the Beard and Seton organizations formed by amalgamation. Amid a storm of pacifist ridicule, Baden-Powell started the organization in England. He first won the approval of Lord Roberts...
...with their "contemporaneous ancestor" among them, Scout Leaders made plans for the coming year. New officials, men of prominence, were elected: Walter W. Head of Omaha, President (succeeding Milton A. McRae of Detroit); Mortimer L. Schiff of Oyster Bay, Vice President, also Milton A. McRae; George D. Pratt, Treasurer; Daniel Carter Beard, National Scout Commissioner (re-elected). The honorary officers include Calvin Coolidge, President, and Vice Presidents William H. Taft, William G. McAdoo, Colin H. Livingstone...
...late Luther Burbank, from Charles Dana Gibson and Chauncey Depew, from John Drew and J. Ramsay Mcdonald, from William Randolph Hearst and John Grier Hibben, from Colonels George Harvey and Edward M. House, from Sir Lionel Phillips and Masuki Otagawa (Japanese mine owner), from George Gordon Battle and Daniel Guggenheim, from Robert Herrick and Sol B. Joel, from Charles Beecher Warren and John J. McCarty. The list has almost no end, composed as it is of men in all walks of life?ambassadors, financiers, politicians, scientists, admirals, artists. And the names of most of these men are not merely lent...
...rides constantly on his own trains, studies them, studies commuters, calls his private car his "business" car. "There is nothing more important than accuracy," says Daniel Willard. His eyes flash, his slim figure, almost boyish 'at 65, straightens. He adds, "There is romance in this business...