Word: elgin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Case. Gathered together for the first time, representatives of the country's 13 endowed institutions of technology witnessed the induction of Dr. William Elgin Wickenden, third president of Cleveland's Case School of Applied Science.* Although President Wickenden has been in office since last autumn, Case took the occasion of its semicentennial celebration to inaugurate him with proper pomp...
Born. To Horace E. Dodge, Detroit motormaker, and Mrs. Muriel Gisman Dodge; a son; in Lady Carnarvon's London nursing home. Name: David Elgin...
...Restoration. In 1687, Turkish Janizaries, conquerors of southeastern Europe, were besieged at Athens by the Venetians. During the battle a great store of powder blew up inside the Parthenon, scattering columns, frieze and architraves. Townsfolk used blocks of Parthenon marble for doorsteps and pigpens. A hundred years ago Lord Elgin stole great masses of the sculpture for the British Museum in London, to save them from "local vandalism." Byron berated him. The Greek Government, belatedly renascent, is now reconstructing the torn Parthenon in the semblance of its periclean perfection...