Word: firsts
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Another provision upon which Co-founder Cornell insisted?one more cause of opposition in the "burnt-over district"* ?was that the university should be a place "where persons of every religious denomination, or of no religious denomination, shall be eligible to attend." First-President White bore bravely into the teeth of booming gales of religion as well as pedantry to bring to Ithaca such outside figures as James Russell Lowell, Louis Agassiz, George William Curtis, Bayard Taylor, Theodore William Dwight, Goldwin Smith, as lecturers...
...Cornell?, President White went to Germany as U. S. Minister. In a like capacity he went to Russia in 1892. There began a tradition. Cornell's second president, Charles Kendall Adams, administered from 1885 to 1892. Then came Jacob Gould Schurman. In 1899, Dr. Schurman was chief of the first U. S. Commission to the Philippines. In 1912-13 he served as U. S. Minister to Greece and Montenegro. After resigning from Cornell in 1920, he was U. S. Ambassador to China. Now, since 1925, he has been a successor to Co-Founder White at Berlin...
...name of the stores was. and still is, "Nedick's"-taken from the first syllables of the names of their original founders. Under the new company, business prospered. Fame came to Nedick's Orangeade. Bankers, brokers, bakers, brakemen, drank freely of it on hot summer days...
...along the Missouri River in Cascade County, Montana. Catcher Skelton is a onetime cineman who supported Cinemactor Buck Jones in pictures professionally known as "Westerns." He is also remembered by attendants at the Dempsey-Gibbons fight (TIME, July 16, 1923) in Shelby, Mont., as the man who won first prize at the accompanying rodeo. With his five helpers, he has already this season rounded up more than 350 horses, many of which will end their days at the Hanson Packing Co., Butte. Mont., horse-cannery. For the wild horse concession, Catcher Skelton has put up a $2,500 bond...
...Manhattan last week came a Hide Exchange, the only Hide Exchange in the world.* More than 2,000,000 pounds of hide futures, with a money value of about $350,000 changed hands during the first day's trading. August hides sold from 16.78? to 16.82? a pound, with the sale unit 40,000 pounds. President of the Exchange is Milton Robert Katzenberg. vice president of Andreson Stern, Inc., Manhattan hide establishment...