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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cotton, a Harvard man and potent Manhattan lawyer, worked with Herbert Hoover in the U. S. Food Administration. Afterwards he became a law partner of William Gibbs McAdoo (1919-21) when the firm of McAdoo, Cotton & Franklin represented the Mexican oil interests of Edward Laurence Doheny. Because of Doheny's subsequent connection with the Oil Scandals, Senate Progressives sought to capitalize Mr. Cotton's service to his discredit...
...under what have often been trying conditions is a tribute both to his ability and to the wisdom of Harvard's policy of athletics for all. Next year the new gymnasium will give intramural athletics much greater usefulness, and will help to place Mr. Bingham's program on a firm and sound basis...
...circular was distributed with the signature of Mr. Gilman as secretary and the names of Mrs. Louis Agassiz, Mrs. Josiah P. Cooke, Mrs. Arthur Gilman, Mrs. James B. Greenough, Mrs. E. W. Gurney, Miss Lilian Horsford and Miss Alice, M. Longfellow. Under less favorable sponsorship and without the firm support of President Eliot of Harvard it would hardly have become firmly established or have survived long...
Differentiated from other colleges for women by the quality of Harvard instruction available to its students and by the strong graduate character of its work, Radcliffe pauses for three days, beginning Thursday, to celebrate its past. Its first half-century of life has brought it firm establishment, academic prestige second to none among the women's colleges and a widening circle of friends. But if the college finds satisfaction in these things, it also feels that its success has given it larger responsibilities for the future. That way its eyes are turned
...University, Northfield, Vt, and studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, during that school's first year, when it had no buildings of its own but only rented rooms in the midst of Boston. In 1882 he was a recently acquired young partner of the old New York banking firm of Winslow, Lanier & Co. Boston born and bred, he had already established among the more flamboyant New Yorkers a quiet reputation as a thorough investigator and sound organizer of the projects into which men put money...