Word: evanston
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...high honor was recently paid Dean Roscoe Pound, Dean of the Law School, when a large portrait of him was hung by the Northwestern University School of Law in the faculty room of the law library at Evanston. In this room are a number of other oil portraits of former Northwestern law professors...
President Walter Dill Scott of Northwestern University: "When Mr. & Mrs. William A. Wieboldt of Chicago gave $500,000 for a hall of commerce, the contracts for this and another structure on Northwestern's new 'downtown' campus [in Chicago instead of out in Evanston, Ill.] were given to R. C. Wieboldt & Co. Last week, Raymond C. Wieboldt, son of the donors, returned to the university $153,872 which he had not needed in fulfilling his specifications. Said I: 'The money so honestly and thoughtfully returned will enable the university to complete the campus structures without soliciting...
...Evanston...
Albert Frick lay propped on the hospital bed, languid, breathing by hand. He had felt miserable; had had a couple of teeth pulled at the dentist's. Going home to his rooming-house in Evanston, Ill., outside Chicago, muggy-minded, dazed, a motor car had hit him, hurt the back of his neck a trifle. Now he was in St. Francis Hospital, Evanston...
...Interior, used to practice medicine in Colorado. No one ever accused him of being ostentatious. He, a widower, has lived quietly in Washington. Last week it became his turn to give a Cabinet dinner in honor of the President and Mrs. Coolidge. His daughter, Mrs. A. W. Bissell of Evanston, Ill., acted as his hostess. Who were the guests? It may safely be said that seldom have the President and Mrs. Coolidge sat down to dinner with so many bigwigs: British Ambassador Sir Esme Howard; Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon; Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover; Associate Justice...