Word: gurney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Merriman '96, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, will be the chairman of the debate between the Republican and the Democratic Clubs tonight in the dining room of Eliot House at 8 o'clock. The question is "Resolved, That Hoover should be reelected...
...Clyburn twins' museum, whose chief exhibit was an emu's egg mistaken for a thunderbolt; Mr. Mellor, the eccentric Pre-Raphaelite painter at No. 5; the Tom-Sawyerish pranks of the Gurney children, whose fearsome governess wore a respirator over her mouth when she ventured outdoors, all lend variety to Author Mackenzie's reminiscences. The touching story of Vagabond William Cobb who lived & died in the attic of empty No. 25, and the final setting straight of his Aunt Adelaide's crippled Victorian romance are matters of a longer fibre that bind the scattered memories into...
George Lyman Kittredge '32, Gurney Professor of English Literature, yesterday received the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature from Oxford University in England. On Tuesday, May 10, he was honored at a luncheon given by the Pilgrim Society of London, which was presided over by the Duke of Connaught...
...eight years of his Speakership (1911-19) Champ Clark took the floor 18 times for regular debate and 45 times when the House was in the Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union. His speeches produced much applause with members rising to their feet. Joseph Gurney Cannon (1903-11) spoke four times on the floor, six times in committee and four times (irregularly) from the chair. Thomas Brackett Reed (1889-91; 1895-99) spoke, according to the records, only "two or three times" from the floor whereas Charles Frederick Crisp (1891-95) spoke...
With the Duke of Connaught, Uncle of King George of England, presiding, the Pilgrim Society of London held a luncheon yesterday in honor of George Lyman Kittredge '82, Gurney Professor of English Literature. The Pilgrim Society recently gave a similar luncheon in honor of Andrew Mellon, American Ambassador to the Court of St. James...