Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Dr. John Phillips, 50, of Cleveland, co-founder of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation; in the Cleveland Clinic catastrophe...
...occasion for the gathering was the 109th birth anniversary of the late great Nurse Florence Nightingale, the founder of trained nursing, who died...
...likely to be misunderstood. "An accurate description of the new Johns Hopkins plan might liken it to the Rhodes foundation for U. S. students, with Johns Hopkins substituted for Oxford University, chemistry specified as the special subject for study, and U. S. Industry in the position of founder. From each of the 48 states, one chemistry student will be chosen annually to go to Johns Hopkins, to study mathematics, physics, English and chemistry (inorganic, organic, physical, analytical) under Professor Neil Elbridge Gordon, recently appointed to the University's new Chair of Chemistry. Students may leave their universities for Johns...
...except by a national school of music, with the best instructors in the world, with no entrance qualification but merit. In 1923 such a school opened its doors -the Curtis Institute of Music, named in honor of Mrs. Bok's mother, consisting of three mansions donated by its founder in Rittenhouse Square. The first year's faculty included Josef Hofmann, piano; Marcella Sembrich, voice; Karl Flesch, violin; Leopold Stokowski, orchestra. By the end of its third year, Curtis Institute had taken its place as one of the leading schools of music in the world...
Married. Rufus T. Bush of Manhattan, Oxford undergraduate, only son of Founder-President Irving T. Bush of Bush Terminal Co.; and Joan Price Jeffery, Manhattan socialite; in Manhattan...