Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER?Harris E. Starr?Holt ($4.00). "Exemplary biography." Sound phrase. Aged and middle-aged Yale men, sipping coffee and nursing cigars, go back to William Graham Sumner, professor at Yale of political and social science, as to a hero of their youth. They declare there was hone like him for forthrightness, wisdom, integrity.* They say the "grand manner," the strong individualism of which he was such an exemplar, is gone out of college professors in these days of alumni control, teaching unions, mass education. Survivors of Yale '83, for instance, recall how they were circularized their senior year...
Born of terse North Englanders, serious as a youth, more so as a student, critical as a traveler, unabashed as a college reformer; a militant rector, fearless and hard-headed politician, prolific publicist, consistent evolutionary sociologist?William Graham Sumner comes vigorously to life in this friendly biography, the planning and writing of which deserve, quite as much as the subject, that old-fashioned adjective, "exemplary...
Married. The Hon. Alice Graham, daughter of Sir Hugh Graham, Lord Atholstan, owner of the Montreal Daily Star, and Lady Atholstan, to one Marsham Hallward...
...Denver, it is announced that a recount of the votes cast in the recent election for Judge of the Juvenile Court gives Judge Ben B. Lindsey a majority of 35. The recount was made necessary by ouster proceedings brought against Judge Lindsey by Royal R. Graham, his defeated opponent (TIME, Apr. 13). Judge Lindsey had first been declared elected by 117 votes...
Bearing a distinction enjoyed only by figures such as George Westinghouse, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas A. Edison, General Goethals, Orville Wright, Guglielmo Marconi, Ambrose Swazey (TIME, Feb. 25. 1924), Mr. Stevens arose to deprecate, to give thanks. He briefly ran over his life?a start in Maine, no technical training, the acquisition of knowledge through observation. He concluded: "There is not a man who ever worked for me whom I cannot now call my friend. That is my greatest triumph...