Word: founder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cornell University has given only two honorary degrees in its entire history-to Andrew Dickson White, co-founder and first president of Cornell, and to David Starr Jordan, now president emeritus of Stanford University. State universities, as a rule, are chary of granting honorary degrees. For example, the University of Minnesota has honored only its president emeritus, William Watts Folwell...
Chinese colleges and universities are now forbidden by the Nationalist Government to require that their students shall attend prayers. Contrarily both faculty and students are required to attend, at least once a week, a memorial service for the late Dr. Sun Yatsen, founder of and omnipresent inspiration the Nationalist Party (TIME, July...
...cannot purchase a deck of playing cards at Wanamaker's, because the late founder John Wanamaker disapproved of gambling and the store still carries out his wishes...
...soap-buying. Women are urged to "keep that schoolgirl complexion." A faint odor of promiscuity hangs over the seductive call of Woodbury's Facial Soap-"A Skin You Love to Touch." But the forthrightness of the Woodbury laboratories (N. Y.), is reestablished by the picture of Founder John H. Woodbury, minus neck,* appearing on each package...
...leaders of the new Nationalist Government of China (TIME, June 18) are Sun worshippers. Last week they repaired to the Temple of the Western Hills, near Peking, and adored the cunningly preserved remains of their Sun-the late Dr. Sun, founder of the Nationalist Party...