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Announcement was made yesterday by the Harriet Newell Lowell Society for Dental Research, which is the student research organization of the Harvard Dental School, of the award of seven fellowships and two medals in recognition of distinctive work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DENTAL SOCIETY GIVES FELLOWSHIPS FOR 1932 | 5/19/1932 | See Source »

...Vagabond is fit to faint as his sainted Aunt Harriet used to say. Such doings! The old town abandoned itself last night to the spirit of revelry and the Vagabond from the shelter of the Subway Pagoda watched the swirling crowds in their mad career after excitement. Life, he mused, as a Freshman draped a fraternal arm about his shoulders, is a strange thing. Dexterously the Vagabond transferred the affections of the nebulous romantic to a nearby column and went on thinking about life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 4/22/1932 | See Source »

...Ward Beecher went to Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati. His father, Lyman Beecher, was the first president of this little Presbyterian institution which was chartered in 1829 with a gift of money from Ebenezer Lane, New Orleans Baptist, and 60 acres of hilly land from Elnathan Kemper, Cincinnati Presbyterian. Harriet Beecher Stowe, wife of Lane's Professor Calvin Ellis Stowe, wrote part of Uncle Tom's Cabin at Lane Seminary. A gentle decline set in 30 years ago. Last week Lane had left only 23 students, ten acres of campus, one professor, one part-time lecturer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Lane's End | 3/14/1932 | See Source »

Died. Mrs. Harriet Converse Moody, famed restaurateur, relict of the late Poet-Playwright WilliamVaughn Moody; of bronchial asthma; in Chicago. While she was a young high school teacher, her culinary triumphs came to the attention of Harry Gordon Selfridge, then manager of Marshall Field & Co., who put her in charge of the store's restaurant. After her reputation spread, she founded her own catering firm, directed other restaurants. But as hostess in her own home Mrs. Moody was most famed. Even after her husband died in 1910, such writers as John Masefield, Rabindranath Tagore, Padraic Colum, James Stephens continued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 7, 1932 | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

When a rich man or woman goes quietly for years about the business of subsidizing music, his philanthropy comes to be taken for granted. Manhattan three weeks ago heard with regret of the sudden passing of Harriet Bishop Lanier, relict of Banker James F. D. Lanier (Winslow, Lanier & Co.), who in 19 years gave nearly $1,000,000 toward the support of the Society of the Friends of Music. Fortnight ago people perfunctorily approved a memorial concert to Mrs. Lanier in which Conductor Artur Bodanzky presented the Actus Tragicus, Bach's mourning cantata. But last week musical people were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Wanted: A Patron | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

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