Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chose the title Rumford from the name of the town in America to which his wife's family belonged (later Concord, New Hampshire). Rumford was not only celebrated as a soldier and statesman, but was one of the greatest philanthropists and scientists of his day. He was the founder and first recipient of the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society and founder of the Rumford Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Rumford Professorship in Harvard University...
...deem it judicious, to do so until it knows more about graduate opinion on the subject. Some of the suggested products are curious. A university chapel, to supplant the present Appleton Chapel, for instance. Appleton Chapel is a monument of the '50s. With no disrespect to its worthy founder, it is one of the bleakest and ugliest buildings ever raised by the hand of man. Possibly, however, undergraduate esthetic feeling toward it has been softened since the compulsory huddling of students at too early hours was abolished. It can't be destroyed, it seems. Possibly, if it stands...
...must henceforth think of Mr. Hughes in the double role of statesman and founder of a new industry...
...Providence, Rhode Island, the regular preacher for the week, will conduct the service. Before chapel, Dean C. N. Greenough '98, President of the Harvard Memorial Society, will place a wreath on the statue of John Harvard in the Delta. Contrary to former custom in commemorating the birth of the founder of the University there will be no exercises this year in front of the statue...
Although John Harvard was not actually the founder of the University, his interest in the college which had been established at Newtowne and his bequest to it made possible the existence of the University as it is today. John Harvard was an English scholar, who earned his bachelor's and master's degree, at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, England. He came to Massachusetts in 1637, and almost immediately donated his library and half of his estate to the college which had been established by order of the General Court. Shortly afterwards the colony failed to do even a portion...