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...have been fads at the Opera Comique. The French like her because she has made their graces her own. Many a U. S. visitor has proudly claimed her to be the most satisfying artist on the French opera stage. Proudest of all, according to friends, has been her husband, Dickson Greene, son of Grant Dickson Greene, Syracuse foundryman. While she sang in Paris, he worked there as representative of Harper's Bazaar. With Dr. and Mrs. Stiles he was present in Chicago last week to applaud...
Cornell has honored only two men? the late Andrew Dickson White and David Starr Jordan. An unbaked tradition says that a cause for Cornell's not giving honorary degrees is the outcry that arose?in and out of Cornell but especially in?over Dr. David Starr Jordan's unflinching pacifism during the War. The fact is that Dr. Jordan, Cornell '72, was honored three decades before the War, in 1886, the same year as Andrew Dickson White, who helped Ezra Cornell found Cornell. Their university gave no honorary degrees between 1886 and the Jordan pacifism. Very early in its career...
...most of the State-supported universities, Cornell began with the Morrill Act of 1862, a Federal land-grant law which afforded sites to all States with gumption sufficient to erect their own places of higher education. The youngest member of the New York State Senate in 1864 was Andrew Dickson White, then 32. Among the elder Senators was a man whom Senator White described as "tall, spare and austere; with a kindly eye, saying little and that dryly. He did not appear unamiable but there seemed in him an aloofness; this was Ezra Cornell...
...Baskervill '23. R. S. Bodie '32 and W. J. Holland '32 led the Crimson scoring, while Reed, Tencher and Reisman scored heavily for Exeter. EXETER HARVARD Reed, r. f. l.g., Moushegian, Beyer Tencher, l. f. r. g., Baskervill Quinn, Gansey, c. c., Brodle, Bicknell, Fuerbringer Reisner, Dickson, r. g. l. f., Holland Fremd, l. g. r. f., Pattison...
Score Exeter 45, Harvard 40, Goals from field Reed 4, Reisner 4, Tencher 4, Quinn 3, Gansey 2, Dickson, Baskervill 6, Holland 5, Brodle 4, Moushegian 2, Pattison. Fouls Reed 2, Tencher 2, Quinn 2, Reisner 2, Fremd, Pattison 2, Holland, Brodie, Referee McDonald. Time--Four 10 minute periods...