Word: ending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vagabond had found many things to admire in New England, but until recently the excellent qualities of its rural postmen had escaped his attention. But now his enthusiasm for that portion of its population is unbounded, and the reason may be found in the events of the last week-end...
...home, gentle-born Jenny, his wife, descendant of the Duke of Argyle, planned and scrimped and did not whine. "Len-chen'' (Helene Demuth), given to Jenny by her mother as a wedding present, slaved till the end of her life with little or no pay, while the Master was writing tomes about the exploitation of the working class. Friend Engels was at Manchester holding down a job and scheming how to get hold of more and more money. Marx's letters to Engels had one refrain: "Lend me?" Eventually Engels sold his interest in a textile business, settled an annuity...
...opened its doors -the Curtis Institute of Music, named in honor of Mrs. Bok's mother, consisting of three mansions donated by its founder in Rittenhouse Square. The first year's faculty included Josef Hofmann, piano; Marcella Sembrich, voice; Karl Flesch, violin; Leopold Stokowski, orchestra. By the end of its third year, Curtis Institute had taken its place as one of the leading schools of music in the world. In 1927, Mrs. Bok increased the endowment to a total of $12,500,000, announced the appointment of Mr. Hofmann as director. Students at the Curtis Institute are fortunate...
...first laboratory at Harvard where chemistry was taught experimentally to undergraduates was established by Professor Josiah P. Cooke in a cellar in the north end of University Hall in 1850. It was to the instruction given here that President Eliot referred when he wrote many years later...
...this end, the Corporation appointed an Executive Committee of which the Rt. Rev. William Lawrence, S.T.D., was Chairman and Dean Wallace B. Donham, Executive Chairman. In order to promote the work of this Committee, the Corporation agreed to appropriate from its won funds $750,000 toward the needs of the Division of Chemistry $500,000 "for endowing research" and $250,000 "for a maintenance fund for the Chemical Laboratories...