Word: fosterers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. George Foster Peabody, 85, philanthropist and educator, trustee of Warm Springs Foundation, owner of "Yaddo," retreat for artists & authors at Saratoga Springs, N. Y.; of heart disease in Warm Springs, Ga. In 25 years with Manhattan's Spencer Trask & Co. he built up a huge fortune. Said he: "But when I came to see in 1906 that the money which I had amassed was the work of others, I then and there decided to retire from business and become my own executor, to administer for the people that which rightfully belonged to them...
...present members of the committee include David E. Feller '38, John L. Foster '38, Gilbert Fraunhar '38, Jay W. Kaufman '38, William A. Kirstein '39, Richard M. Martin '38, Randall W. Richards '38, T. Ryden Skinner '38, George D. Straton '38, Louis Sutro '38, William N. Chambers '39, Charles B. Ellis '39, and Harold L. Stubbs...
...foster scientific sociology" and to spread the understanding of it among students who don't know what it is, Sociology concentrators Wednesday night formed a Sociology Club...
...Communist Party. The Daily Worker appealed to patriotic sentiment by printing a picture of a capitalistic U. S. flag riddled by General Franco's bombers as it flew over Barcelona's Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. building. Meantime the two tiptop U. S. Communists, William Z. Foster and Earl Browder, had returned to Manhattan from Moscow, still talking collective security, which means support of Capitalist Franklin Roosevelt. Mr. Browder, who holds down the same official job in the U. S. as Mr. Stalin in Russia-General Secretary of the Party-arrived home just in time to welcome a four...
...undergraduate body, and even outside the University's walls, has taken a new step forward with the appointment of a Counselor on extra-curricular reading in this field. This Counselor is to pay particular attention to Freshmen. It is just this group which most urgently needs some officer to foster an interest in a knowledge of our culture and civilization--a knowledge which can be pursued in spare time throughout the remaining three years of college, and which will be a bulwark in later life, comparable to the Englishman's keen appreciation of the classics...