Word: harper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York or Chicago. Mr. Rockefeller (always referred to since as "The Founder") gave $600,000. Marshall Field gave the site, worth $125,000 on the Midway where the World's Fair of 1893 was to be held. The character of the institution was contributed by William Rainey Harper, the 35-year-old Woolsey Professor of Biblical Literature at Yale whom the 'founders asked to be their first president. Youngman Harper said: "I am not interested in starting a college. But I am interested in starting a great university...
Seven years after President Harper took office, a boy was born to William James Hutchins and his wife, in Brooklyn. William James Hutchins is now president of Little Berea College (Berea, Ky.). The son, who was named Robert Maynard Hutchins, now 30, is the young man who, called like William Rainey Harper from Yale, was inducted as President Harper's fourth successor at Chicago...
...battle of lines. Harvard reached its top form of the year. Harper, to me, appeared great on defence."--L. F. Daley...
Second team: ends, Hickok of Yale and O'Connell of Harvard; tackles, Himmelberg of Holy Cross and Barber of Dartmouth; guards, Greene of Yale and Bianchi of New Hampshire; center, Andres of Dartmouth; quarterback, Wood of Harvard halfbacks, Mays of Harvard and Ellis of Yale; fullback, Harper of Harvard...
HARVARD 180 175 173 175 DEVENS WOOD HARPER PUTNAM Right Halfback Quarterback Fullback Left Halfback 185 187 196 185 190 188 185 O'CONNELL W. TICKNOR TALBOT B.TICKNOR TRAINER BARRETT DOUGLAS Right End Right Tackle Right Guard Center LeftGuard Left Tackle Left End 183 200 198 198 205 197 162 HICKOK MARTING HARE PALMER GREENE VINCENT BARRES Left End Left Tackle Left Guard Center Right Guard Right Tackle Right End 165 165 155 175 McLENNAN ELLIS BOOTH AUSTEN Left Halfback Fullback Quarterback Right Halfback YALE