Word: ditson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This broadcast of returns has been sponsored by: J. August, Inc.; James W. Brine (Brine's); The Bolter Company: Briggs and Briggs; Browning, King and Company; Covin, Florist; John H. Derby, Jeweler; The Georgian Cafeterias; Bazen's and The Yard Lunch; Students Laundry Company; University Theatre; and Wright and Ditson. The Coop is donating the use of its building for placing the sound projectors which will carry the announcements to crowds in the Square...
...graduate of the Ecole Speciale des Travaux of Paris, for study in the Harvard Engineering School. The Jay Backus Woodworth Fellowship in Geology, given in honor of the late Professor Woodworth by his students, has been awarded to Howard A. Powers, of Brookings, South Dakota. The James Edward Ditson Fund, providing for a travelling fellowship in Music, is given to Jacob M. Coopersmith, of Forest Hills, New York...
...Ditson Scholarship in Music has been awarded to R. S. Angell, of Cambridge, special student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, for the next academic year and R. S. Chamberlain, of Cambridge, a graduate of Stanford University in 1925, and A.M. from Harvard in 1929, will hold the Woodbury Lowery Fellowship in History during...
...another issue. Runner-up for the 1930 title of "Champion Horseshoe Pitcher of Congress," he defeated his Democratic opponent in the last Congressional election by nine votes. Died. Frederick Benjamin Haviland, 63, music publisher; of pneumonia developed from influenza; in Manhattan. Learning the business from the late Oliver Ditson, he founded a firm with the late Songwriter Paul Dresser ("On the Banks of the Wabash," which they published), brother of Novelist Theodore Herman Dreiser. During his life Publisher Haviland sold over ten million copies of songs in the U. S.; at the peak of his business he sold them...
Famous during his lifetime as a music publisher and dealer in musical instruments, Ditson left much of his fortune for the purpose of helping students to gain a musical education...