Word: grandgent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annual meeting of the Simplified Spelling Board held at Columbia University recently C. H. Grandgent '83, Professor of Romance Languages at the University was re-elected President of the Board, of which he is also a trustee. Professor F. W. Taussig '79 of the University Economics Department and W. T. Foster '01 were chosen vice-presidents, while Godfrey Dewey '09, at present 1 G. Ed., was elected secretary. With Mr. Dewey's election the office and headquarters of the Board have been transferred from Columbia to Emerson 4 at the University...
...Board has just issued a pamphlet, "The Handbook of Simplified Spelling", compiled partly under the direction of Professor Grandgent, and for the next year the Board will devote itself to the distribution of this Handbook together with another pamphlet entitled, "The Reasons and rules for Simplified Spelling"; and a leaflet including the thirty words recommended as a first step for beginners. The last two pamphlets may be obtained free from Mr. Dewey on request, but the Handbook will be given free only to members of the Simplified Spelling League. Others may obtain paper-bound copies for fifty cents and board...
...inning Room of the Union the University Spanish Club, El Circule Espaguol, will give its annual dance with music furnished by an orchestra composed of members of the Pierian Sodality. Admission will be $2.50 a couple. The patronesses are Mrs. J. D. M. Ford. Mrs C. H. Grandgent, Mrs. C. Marrach, Mix Guillemo Rivera, and Mrs S. P. Wiley...
...University, will escort the Ambassador from Boston to University Hall. President Lowell is to be out of town tomorrow, and in his absence the Ambassador will be met by a reception committee consisting of Charles H. Haskins, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; Professor Charles H. Grandgent '83; William Roscoe Thayer '81, the biographer of Cavour and author of other books on Italian history, who is an Overseer of the University; Professor Chandler R. Post '04; William C. Lane '81, librarian of the Widener Memorial Library; and some members of the Faculty...
...strictly included in this category should be mentioned Hoppin's "Euthymides and His Fellows" and "A Handbook of Attic Red-Figured Vases," Beazley's "Attic Red-Figured Vases in American Museums," Courtney Langdon's translation of Dante, Professor Kittredge's "The Old Farmer and His Almanack," Professor Grandgent's "Old and New," Hillyer's "Sonnets and Other Lyrics," and Phoutrides' translation of Kostes Palamas' "Life Immovable." The Press also issues the Journal of Industrial Hygiene, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Harvard Theological Review. Practically all the manufacture of these publications, except the binding, is carried on in Randall...