Word: evanston
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Friends and officials of Northwestern University assembled at the north edge of Chicago to lay and dedicate four cornerstones of a new unit of that thriving institution, whose headquarters are farther up Lake Michigan, at Evanston, Ill. Mr. and Mrs. George Alexander McKinlock had given the campus in memory of their warrior son.. Mrs. Montgomery Ward had given a medical-dental centre, a 14-story Gothic building, in memory of her merchant (mailorder) husband. The widow of Levy Mayer, famed attorney, had given a hall of law. Judge Elbert H. (U. S. Steel) Gary of Manhattan had given...
Actually $202,503.40 have been deposited with the National Treasurer. The New York Committee, however, have on deposit $20,000 collected from school children in that city. Washington has $3,004, San Francisco has $3,500, Evanston, Ill., has $1,500, and Los Angeles $4,000 or more. From various other sources the Committee has been assured of amounts that will bring the total up just over...
...assistants, all members of the Junior Class; are Alexander Johnston Cassalt, of Rosemont, Pa,; Clement Duane Coady, of West Newton; Frederick Vanderbilt Field, of Lenox; Sarell Everett Gleason Jr., of Evanston, III Courtland Sherrington Gross, of West Newton; Ellsworth Charles Haggerty, of Allston; Nathaniel Hamlen, of Boston; Joseph Delano Hitch, of Denver, Col.; Bayard Livingston Kilgour, of Cincinnati, Ohio; and Henry Sewall Woodbridge, of Brookline...
...Wabash College (Crawfordsville, Ind.)-triumph. A fortnight ago, her pride, her young Demosthenes, her handsome Maurice ("Red") Robinson journeyed to Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) with his elocution coach, Professor W. N. Brigance, for the National Contest of the Interstate Oratorical Association, for which he had qualified by winning the Indiana state contest (TIME, March 1). Other doughty state champions were there at Evanston: a forceful South Dakotan with an oration on prohibition; a West Virginian propounding that "Science Has a Rendez-vous"; an lowan primed to deliver "Cat and Cattle." But none was so shrewd, none so compelling as Hoosier...