Word: farrand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twinkling with discreet mystery was Cornell University's retiring President Livingston Farrand last week, as he told the press about one L. H. Anon. Eight years ago, said President Farrand, he found in his mail a cashier's check for $20,000. It was accompanied by a letter signed L. H. Anon, explaining that Cornell might use the money as it saw fit but warning President Farrand not to inquire into the donor's identity. Cornell cashed the check. Next year President Farrand got another...
Grown grey and distinguished in the service of Education are the three Brothers Farrand who graduated from Princeton when it was called the College of New Jersey. Brother Wilson Farrand, 74, one of the founders of the College Entrance Examination Board, was headmaster of Newark Academy from 1901 until he be came emeritus last year. Brother Max, 67, prime authority on the Constitution, is now research director of Los Angeles' rich Henry E. Huntington Library & Art Gallery. More famed than either is gentle, witty Brother Livingston, 69, who in his 15 years as president of Cornell University has enriched...
Meeting in Ithaca, Cornell's trustees with one hand accepted President Farrand's long-pending resignation, with the other elected his successor. He is Edmund Ezra Day who, as Director of the Social Sciences Division, is one of the five princes of potent Rockefeller Foundation. Dr. Day's Dartmouth classmates still call him "Rufus," because as a freshman he won a Rufus Choate Scholarship by totting up the astounding course average of 92%. "Rufus" Day continued his studying streak so well that he made Phi Beta Kappa, got a job teaching economics at Dartmouth year after graduation...
Among these "advisory editors," whose billing in the magazine carefully relieves them of responsibility for its contents, are Cornell's Livingston Farrand, Wisconsin's President Glenn Frank, Author Angelo Patri, Chief Scout James E. West, many a child psychologist, teacher, pediatrician...
...FARRAND CALLS FOR FREE TEACHING Amherst's King...