Word: edwin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Professor Edwin Bidwell Wilson '99 of the Harvard School of Public Health has been reelected president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, it has just been announced. Professor Arthur Edwin Kennelly Hon. '06, of the Engineering School, Professor George Howard Parker '87, director of the Zoological Laboratory, and Professor George Lyman Kittredge '82, Gurney Professor of English Literature at the University, were elected vice-presidents...
Thomas Barbour '06, director of the University Museum, and Professor Paul Joseph Sachs '00 will serve on the finance committee of the Academy. Professor George Foot Moore Hon, '06, and Associate Professor Edwin Crawford Kemble have been appointed to the publication committee. W. C. Lane '81, and Barbour are announced as members of the library committee of the Academy. Professor Simeon Burt Wolbach '99 of the Medical School will serve on the house committee. Professor Parker, Professor Gregory Paul Baxter '96, and Associate Professor William Chase Greene '11, Professor Wilson, and Professor Gulick will compose the meetings committee. Professors Harlow...
...Judge Edwin B. Parker, board chairman of the Chamber, was there. The times, he said, "demand that we consider the disturbing evidences of a business atavism- a throwback of a day of unrestrained individualism; a day of 'the public be damned...
Sponsored by five very various organizations, the show was composed of properly variegated inclusions. There was nothing in it of breathtaking excellence; Albert Laessle's Billy, a statue of a capricious goat, was much admired by visiting children. Cyrus Edwin Dallin, whose Appeal to the Great Spirit, stands in front of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, sent in several small bronzes; Richard Recchia showed his Frog Mountain. There were, perhaps, too many fat little boys squirting water and too many totally unimportant garden decorations...
...National City Bank's branches in Manhattan an early morning last week. Behind the bank's bolted doors and copper-framed windows employes pulled themselves tense with the expectation of rushing business, and glowed with pride at the immediate success of their President Charles Edwin Mitchell's new banking idea. President Mitchell had announced that this bank (biggest in the U. S.) would loan $50 to $1,000 at 6% interest to responsible employed persons, with no other security than their own signatures and the endorsement of two respectable friends. (All such loans to be repaid within...