Word: descendantal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Harvard Studentship at Cambridge was held this year by Thomas Hopkinson Eliot, '28, grandson of the late President Eliot, prominent in undergraduate activities during the years 1924-28. The scholarship was founded in honor of Lionel de Jersey Harvard, a direct descendant of the founder of the University, who...
Died. William Bliss Carman, 68, of New Canaan, Conn., famed poet, descendant of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1928 winner of Canada's Poet Laureate Medal; at New Canaan.
President Hoover, in a telegram which he sent last week regretting that he could not be present to unveil a bust of President James Madison, called the Hall of Fame and its periodic unveiling ceremonies, "a noble inspiration to the young." Eight-year-old Betty Glenn Walker, a descendant of...
Married. Siegfried Roebling, 38, of Bernardsville, N. J., descendant of the engineers Roebling who built Brooklyn Bridge; and one Mildred K. Kunath, 23, of Matawan, N. J.; in Manhattan.
At home, gentle-born Jenny, his wife, descendant of the Duke of Argyle, planned and scrimped and did not whine. "Len-chen'' (Helene Demuth), given to Jenny by her mother as a wedding present, slaved till the end of her life with little or no pay, while the Master was...