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...home, to which came his brother H. Eugene Parrott, 92, his son Thomas Marc Parrott, 63, professor of English at Princeton University. Colonel Parrott chanced to be in the Governor of Ohio's office when President Lincoln called for volunteers, believes he was the first man to enlist. He became Colonel of the 1st Ohio Infantry, won medals, was later made provost of Ohio. From 1866-67 he was Speaker of Ohio's Lower House. He went to Ohio Wesleyan, is its oldest living alumnus...
...consider the problems of the future in the light of what has happened in the past will be more capable and more efficient than an untrained competitor of equal ability. From the results which have been attained so far, judged largely by the eagerness of business concerns to enlist the services of graduates of the school, it seems evident that the idea is at least fundamentally right. This of course does not in any way mean that the Business School has rached the millenium; on the contrary it is still in the experimental stage, and there is no doubt much...
...last week announced the American Institute of Architects, officially joining the Save-the-Scenery movement. From Manhattan appeals to 70 member societies were issued. All Architects were urged to enlist local booster clubs, civic authorities, most of all to exhort state legislatures, in whose province lie curtailment powers. At the same time William Stanley Parker of Boston was named by the Institute to aid a test case, expected to prove a precedent, now pending before the U. S. Supreme Court, in which the Massachusetts Billboard Law Defense Committee hopes to determine whether property can be constitutionally regulated...
...buffalo. Said he: "When the buffalo went away the hearts of my people fell to the ground, and they could not lift them up again. After this nothing happened." But, says Author Linderman, when the U. S. declared war against Germany, Plenty-coups urged his young men to enlist. The Government recognized his patriotism, chose him to lay the Indian wreath on the Unknown Soldier's grave at Arlington...
...Dakota when that President electrified the country and drew all citizens' puzzled attention Dakotawards by his ten laconic words: "I do not choose to run for President in 1928." After the election of 1928 restored Calvin Coolidge to private life, South Dakota joined the parade of those seeking to enlist his laconic literary talent. It was arranged that he should write a 500-word history of the U. S. for Sculptor Gutzon Borglum to carve upon the granite face of Mount Rushmore, popular eminence in the Black Hills...