Word: founder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four-year career of a candidate for an A.B. degree. "Joan," the heroine, is Marjory Erdman, a sophomore from Honolulu, who was allowed to count her cinemacting as school work. From the time she comes wide-eyed up the winding drive to the luxurious hilltop estate of the late founder William Van Duzer Lawrence in Bronxville, N. Y., until she self-consciously reads her senior "contract" (thesis) to critical classmates, Joan untiringly shows off Sarah Lawrence's progressivism...
...Founder's Day of Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, British Ambassador to the U. S. Lord Lothian-who so far has got neatly over every hurdle that might offend U. S. public opinion-proposed "unity of nations under law, with government possessed of police powers." Totalitarian imperialism must be ended, he said, and the weaknesses of democracy corrected. "Democracy was right in its insistence on liberty and personal responsibility, but in practice the free peoples have abused the freedom it has given them by turning it, as St. Paul says, to uses of the flesh. . . . The leaders of democracy...
...campus by centennial time, had sought a permit of exhumation from Shockoe Cemetery in Richmond. Few days before, Elizabeth Wright Weddell, sister of Ambassador to Argentina Alexander Weddell, turned up records of the Colonel's burial (in 1864) in another cemetery. Regretfully, V. M. I. celebrated without its founder, hoped soon to bring him home...
...Wilfred T. Grenfell, K.C.M.G., founder of the Grenfell Mission to Labrador, will speak about that organization's work tonight at 8 o'clock in the large auditorium of the Fogg Museum...
...snagged him after the death of his first, beautiful wife, Mary Swift, and did her best to take all the joy out of his and their children's life from then on. But Parry's story is mostly about the Major and his times. Son of the founder and first commandant of Fort Dearborn (later Chicago), a handsome soldier and famous engineer, constructor of the then marvelous Western Railroad of Massachusetts, Major Whistler was engaged by Tsar Nicholas in 1842 to build Russia's first long-distance railroad - from St. Petersburg to Moscow...