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...earnest plea for action is now realized. He is honorary chairman of a national committee, of which Franklin Roosevelt is active head, to raise $15,000,000 at least, for the completion of the cathedral. The New York chairman is Elihu Root. The cathedral is national, or even international, in its interest, for when it is completed it will be by far the largest cathedral in the Protestant or in the English speaking world, second only in size to Seville and St. Peter...
...Ernest Fox Nichols, former President of Dartmouth and Director of pure science in the Nela Research Laboratories, who served as President of Tech for a few months in 1921 but was compelled to resign on account of ill health. In the interregnum the Institute has been administered by Elihu Thomson, famed inventor of electric welding, who is one of its trustees. M. I. T. has specialized in electrical engineering and is the chief training school for the general staff of the industry in America. Stratton will cause no break in the succession of electric experts He was born...
...done more. He has clothed his conception in dramatic form and provided dramatis personae to act the piece. Cecil Rhodes who lured young Americans to England for propaganda purposes is the chief villain, supported in the minor roles by Andrew Carnegie, Lord Northcliffe, Sir Gilbert Parker, Lady Astor, Elihu Root, Owen Wister, Dr. Neilson of Smith, the Sulgrave Institute, the English Speaking Union, the Pilgrim Society, the Sons of St. George. Probably nothing but his artistic sense of the exigencies of the stage prevented the commissioner from adding the names of all American citizens of British ancestry...
Accordingly, Harding's campaign manager, Will H. Hays, conferred with pro-League Republicans (especially Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman, the then President of Cornell University, and Dr. Samuel McCune Lindsay, President of the Academy of Political Science at Columbia Uni- versity), and as result Elihu Root prepared a draft declaration in favor of Harding and an Association of Nations. This draft was discussed at a meeting of the Century Club of New York City. It was finally made public by Dr. Schurman on October 14, 1920, at the University Club, New York, appearing in the press on the following...
Died. Mrs. Mary Howell Beecher, 69, author, descendant of Elihu Yale (founder of Yale University), and through her husband related to Henry Ward Beecher, in Brooklyn...