Word: harper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contest closed in October. Last week the result was announced-or lack of result. Some 10,000 citizens had tried to make Woodrow Wilson mean $25,000 to them. But, with the seventy-first anniversary of the birth of Woodrow Wilson at hand, Dr. George McLean Harper, Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature at Princeton and foreman of the essay-judging jury, was obliged to announce that not one of the essays submitted was, in substance or style, "fit to be published without embarrassment and submitted to the critical judgment of educated men and women...
With Upton Sinclair announcing a new novel called "Boston", in which one assumes that the foundations of the city will be rocked and shattered, with Elmer Davis asking in Harper's "What Has Happened to Boston?", with the memory not yet obliterated of the funeral oration on Boston delivered in the pages of last year's American Mercury, and with the Nation's fervent and constant gibes in the direction of the metropolis of the Commonwealth, what journalists name the "Bub" is apparently in a bad, bad way. The comparison most often cited is that of decadent Rome--the parallel...
...Harvard 5, Rockaway Club 1; J. L. Pole '28 defeated B. L. Norris, 3-0; Seabury Oliver '28 defeated E. Jonklass, 3-0; A. G. Thatcher '29 defeated B. Miller, 4-1; G. T. Francis '30 defeated W. S. Davis, S-1; B. H. Whitbeck '29 defeated J. H. Harper, 4-1; G.T. J. Wyeth defeated S. M. Dupertius...
...more. With this the new University of Chicago was established; Dr. Goodspeed was made secretary of the board of trustees, then registrar, then corresponding secretary. Dr. Goodspeed wrote three books about his college. When he died last week he had almost finished a biography of William Rainey Harper, first president of the university which, without Thomas Wakefield Goodspeed, probably could never have existed...
...results of the election were as follows: FOR PRESIDENT W. R. Harper 728 G. L. Lewis 871 W. T. Wetmore 897 FOR VICE-PRESIDENT J. E. Barrett 572 John Noble 676 FOR SECRETARY J. V. N. Hitch 684 Bernard Barnes 843 W. P. Lage...