Word: grahame
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...GRAHAM SHEPARD QUATE...
...special committee composed of Juniors has been appointed for the purpose of taking charge of the poll and of counting the votes. This committee is headed by A. G. Churchill and includes John Cross, R. R. Forrester, C. E. Galston, J. R. Graham, Barrett Hoyt, Kendrick Kerna, W. P. Lage, A. B. Martin, H. P. Minis, J. R. Smith, C. M. Underhill, John Ward, and S. C. Wheelock...
...brought to the U. S. by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, who went to Europe in 1815 to study education of the deaf, and for whom Gallaudet College, founded in 1864 at Washington, was named. The Clarke School, founded in 1867, had as its first trustee-president the late famed Alexander Graham Bell, whose wife was deaf. It was while experimenting on sound-amplification to aid the deaf that Dr. Bell invented the telephone, in 1876. One Jeanie Lippitt, now Mrs. William B. Weeden of Providence, R. I., was the first U. S. deaf-mute child to regain speech by the lipreading...
Other winners of the Pictorial Review Prize have been: in 1924, Mrs. Edward A. MacDowell, widow of the late Composer MacDowell, for her musicaliterary colony in Peterborough, N. H.; in 1925, Cora Wilson Stewart, for her Moonlight Schools, and her work discouraging illiteracy; in 1926, Sara Graham Mulhall, for her work decreasing the drug traffic; in 1927, Actress Eva Le Gallienne, for her organization of the Civic Repertory Theatre in New York City...
When votes were counted Mr. Baldwin had 1,044, and his nearest rival, Scottish Nationalist Candidate Cunningham Graham 978. Prime Minister Baldwin succeeds his Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain as Lord Rector...