Word: franklin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Colpok ranked well up in the first quarter of his class throughout his course, although during all this time he was self-supporting, and his marks on the Harvard admission examinations averaged 80 per cent. For a number of years he has delivered papers in the Franklin Field section of Dorchester, as his two brothers did before...
...better proof of the value of CRIMSON training could be offered than by citing the names of former editors. Joseph Clark Grew, T. W. Lamont, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Ambassador Haughton, Melville E. Stone, William Roscoe Thayer, and Owen Wister are only examples of former CRIMSON editors who have succeeded after college. The training that is offered by any of the departments not only possesses all the advantages of any extra-curricular activity, but in the opportunity to interview prominent men, in the varied type of work involved, and in the contacts with every branch of college activity and life which...
Most Of the most prominent Jews in the U. S., to the number of 1000 assembled at the Benjamin Franklin Hotel, Philadelphia, to discuss the plight of their coreligionists in Eastern Europe. David A. Brown, Jewish organizer, proposed a plan for assisting Russian Jews to get back to the farm. He was supported by Julius Rosenwald and Louis Marshall. He was emotionally opposed by Rabbi Stephen S. Wise who urged concentration of Jewish efforts in Palestine. After a day's debate, Messrs. Brown, Marshall, Rosenwald, Wise, H. H. Lehman, Felix Warburg, Nathan Straus, retired, a committee, to a room...
...Benjamin Franklin's Great-Grandniece Is "Up" on Science...
...Author. Gertrude Horn, great-grandniece of Benjamin Franklin, was born in San Francisco. She married and was widowed young ("one of the most important incidents of my school life"). She wrote travel books with the aid of a geography and claims the introduction to fiction of San Francisco's social life. It is her pride and habit to be "up" on things, especially international politics and psychology, which she discusses in a manner highly stimulating to the notables that throng her Manhattan apartment-salon. At the moment she is traveling in England where she has long been regarded...