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Jarman is a Davison Scholar here this year, following a three year term at Oxford, where he was an Exhibitioner of New College...
...Associates of Lowell House are Alfred North Whitehead, Professor of Philosophy, Edward Kenard Rand '94, Professor of Latin, Roger Bigelow Merriman '96, Gurney Professor of History, Archibald Thompson Davison '05, Professor of Music, Robert Pierpont Blake, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Widener Library, and Harlow Shapley. Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the Observatory...
...provinces with her own group of Ibsen players, Miss Le Gallienne conceived the idea of the Civic Repertory Theatre. It was in Cincinnati that she put the proposition to her company. Many of them are still with her. Her backers included Otto Herman Kahn, Adolph Lewisohn, Ralph Pulitzer, John Davison Rockefeller Jr. She opened on a Monday night in 1926 with Jacinto Benavente's Saturday Night, gave Tchekov's The Three Sisters on Tuesday and, scorning to start gradually, added some Ibsen later in the week. The Pictorial Review Achievement Award for that year ($5,000) helped solve her financial...
...momentary hero during the break was John Davison Rockefeller, who said he and his son had been buying stocks. When prices continued to go down so did Rockefeller's glory. But when last week Standard Oil of New Jersey was selling at 50¾, the market was electrified by an order to buy 1,000,000 shares at $50 and Rockefeller became a permanent hero...
...failed and died, lacking money. It was an entirely new institution that arose, six years later, out of three things: 1) Thomas Wakefield Goodspeed's desire to establish a Chicago college foundation; 2) The American Baptist Education Society's desire for a college somewhere; 3) John Davison Rockefeller's decision to found a college either in New York or Chicago. Mr. Rockefeller (always referred to since as "The Founder") gave $600,000. Marshall Field gave the site, worth $125,000 on the Midway where the World's Fair of 1893 was to be held. The character of the institution...