Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philadelphian orchestra in the absence of its regular leader, Leopold Stokowski, a onetime winner of the Bok Prize. The other winners were all present except for the late Dr. Russel H. Conwell ("Acres of Diamonds") ; there was Samuel S. Fleisher, founder of the Graphic Sketch Club; Charles Custis Harrison, onetime provost of the University of Pennsylvania; Samuel Yellin, master ironworker; Dr. Chevalier Jackson, who "devised" the bronchoscope. Tension in the audience increased as Congressman James M. Beck began to speak...
...often lose touch with the active world of letters. Time was, recalls the magazine, when a professor of English at New Haven "snubbed the most vital living authors in order to sing in extravagant terms the praises of an innocuous and now almost forgotten novelist, Henry Sydner Harrison". And the years which have passed since the author of "Queed" was popular have brought equally significant and disappointing parallels...
...Harvard Lampoon has just announced the election of the following officers: Alan Russell Black-burn Jr. '29, of Flushing, N. Y., President; Philip Hichborn '29, of Washington, D. C., Ibis; Henry Harrison Proctor '29, of Boston, Treasurer; and James De Normandie '29, of Boston, Secretary...
...such Democrats as stayed to hear him, Senator Walsh of well-protected Massachusetts said he was for a "scientific" tariff. Senators Dill and Jones begged protection for the Washington shingle industry. Senator Bruce bumbled about the Baltimore straw hat trade. Small-eyed Senator Watson of Indiana and nasal Senator Harrison of Mississippi, wrangled interminably over Republican and Democratic tariff statements and records...
...summary follows: HARVARD ANDOVER Howland, Clifford, l.w. r.w., Pierce Mills, Collins, Felton, r.w. l.w., Adams Davis, Richardson, Shearer, c. c., Cushman Covel, Warren, l.d. r.d., Genkins Clark, Harrison, r.d. l.d., Carroll, Rugg Trask, g. g., Neill, Hayes...