Word: dykes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...previously announced, the first debate between Yale and Harvard will take place on Saturday, when the Pan-American Arbitration Treaty will be the subject for argument. The Yale representatives will be, R. B. Fulton, R. G. Oster-weis, P. W. Hoon, and H. G. Dyke. The Harvard debaters have not yet been selected...
Princeton's active Grand Old Man is Professor Emeritus Henry Van Dyke, author, poet, preacher, onetime (1913-17) U. S. Minister to the Netherlands and Luxemburg. He it is who is brought out to show to visiting notables. But Princeton sentiment also embraces the aged Francis Landey Patton, President from 1888 to 1902. Upon his resignation, he took up the Presidency of Princeton Theological Seminary. In 1913 he went into retirement in Bermuda where he was born 87 years ago and whither he returned still a British subject. Holidaying Princetonians go to see him, shake his thin hand. They...
Best of all, is the chapter on the Glim Club, which combines all of the most fantastic stories of Harvard's most fantastic final clubs. It is the oldest club in the world has songs by Bach, portraits of the founders by Van Dyke, effigies of the founders by Mme. Tussaud, presentation casks of Napoleon brandy, and a styward (Old English for steward) who is the eighth descendant in line of the original Chiffinch, the first styward, who mixed stirrup cups back in the pre-Revolutionary days for the brave lads, then members of the Glim...
...lectures which have taken place since the fund was instituted, many of them have been delivered by distinguished men. Some of the better known lecturers in the past include the Reverend Henry Van Dyke; Professor George Herbert Palmer '64, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, emeritus; the Right Reverend William Boyd Carpenter, Bishop of Ripon; the Right Reverend Charles H. Brent, Bishop of the Philippine Islands, Theodore Roosevelt '80; Wilfred T. Grenfell; the Right Reverend Arthur Cayley Headlam, Bishop of Gloucester; and the Reverend W. R. Matthews, Dean of Kings College, London University...
...listed in Who's Who, whereas the proportion for other professions is 46 to 1; for skilled labor 1,600 to 1; for unskilled labor 48,000 to 1 (figures based on 1922-23 edition of Who's Who). Famed sons of clergymen: Henry Van Dyke, William Lyon Phelps, Robert Maynard Hutchins, Otis Skinner, John Grier Hibbeii, Irving Fisher, Charles Evans Hughes...