Word: edmunds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meeting in Ithaca, Cornell's trustees with one hand accepted President Farrand's long-pending resignation, with the other elected his successor. He is Edmund Ezra Day who, as Director of the Social Sciences Division, is one of the five princes of potent Rockefeller Foundation. Dr. Day's Dartmouth classmates still call him "Rufus," because as a freshman he won a Rufus Choate Scholarship by totting up the astounding course average of 92%. "Rufus" Day continued his studying streak so well that he made Phi Beta Kappa, got a job teaching economics at Dartmouth year after graduation...
...preacher of the ordination sermon, Rev. George Dorey of Regina, reminded his listeners that the cause of Lydia Gruchy had been championed by no less a churchman than the late Moderator Edmund Henry Oliver of the United Church. The Church's General Council finally voted to admit women to the ministry last September...
...other poll scores. Good-humored Editor Wilfred J. Funk, who himself had wagered no money on the election, featured on his magazine's first page a small facsimile Digest cover encircling the legend, "IS OUR FACE RED!" Beneath this he printed a cartoon by Edmund Duffy of the Baltimore Sun in which a battered GOPolitician clutches a horsewhip and growls into a telephone: "Literary Digest? Lemme talk to the editor!" Surrounding text went...
High praise for Professor Edmund D. Day, elected fifth president of Cornell yesterday, and former chairman of the Economics Department here, was forth-coming from both Frank W. Taussig '79, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, emeritus, and Henry W. Holmes '03, Dean of the Graduate School of Education...
...hard to imagine a more fitting appointment to the Presidency of any great American university than that of Dr. Edmund E. Day. He has seen higher education in America from every important standpoint. His undergraduate days were spent at Dartmouth, and he attained his Doctor's degree at Harvard; then he taught both large introductory courses in a popular subject and small advanced courses in technical branches of the same field. He then became head of a professional school in a great state university of the Middle West. His more recent work for the Rockefeller Foundation has brought him into...