Word: gurney
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Associates of Lowell House are Alfred North Whitehead, Professor of Philosophy, Edward Kenard Rand '94, Professor of Latin, Roger Bigelow Merriman '96, Gurney Professor of History, Archibald Thompson Davison '05, Professor of Music, Robert Pierpont Blake, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Widener Library, and Harlow Shapley. Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the Observatory...
...enforcement was the subject of the first big speech, by outgoing President Gurney Elwood Newlin of Los Angeles. He took the up-to-date angle: "The resort to lawlessness in enforcing law or seeking to enforce the law is more than casual, in fact, it tends to be habitual...
Elections. To succeed President Gurney Elwood Newlin, the Association elected Henry Upson Sims of Birmingham, Ala. John Howard Voorhees of Sioux Falls, S. Dak., and William Patterson MacCracken Jr. of Chicago were reflected Treasurer and Secretary...
...Thomas Brackett Reed (1839-1902) of Maine was twice Speaker of the House: 1889-91 and 1895-99. Strong of will, he, with William McKinley and Joseph Gurney Cannon, framed new parliamentary rules which provided that every Representative must vote, that members present but not voting could be counted for a quorum, that no dilatory or filibustering motion be entertained by the Speaker. Attacked as a "Tsar," he used his rules to rush through the House the McKinley (1890) and the Dingley (1897) tariff bills...
...that "no instruction will be provided of a lower grade than that given in Harvard College." The circular was distributed with the signature of Mr. Gilman as secretary and the names of Mrs. Louis Agassiz, Mrs. Josiah P. Cooke, Mrs. Arthur Gilman, Mrs. James B. Greenough, Mrs. E. W. Gurney, Miss Lilian Horsford and Miss Alice, M. Longfellow. Under less favorable sponsorship and without the firm support of President Eliot of Harvard it would hardly have become firmly established or have survived long...