Word: hills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great railroad men of four decades ago were generally referred to as "Empire Builders," an earth-shouldering epithet originally applied to James J. Hill. Since the death of Mr. Hill, and of less admirable Jay Gould and their stern peers, the epithet had lapsed into disuse, but last week it was revived for a contemporary capitalist, Arthur Curtiss James. It became known that during the last two years Mr. James has accumulated a large stock interest in the Western Pacific Railroad Corp., becoming thereby probably the largest private railroad shareholder in the U. S.- a mighty factor in nearly...
Announcement was made last night by the judges of the CRIMSON school newspaper competition that the cup for this year had been awarded to the Choate News. The Hill News and the Hotchkiss Record, at the same time, received honorable mention. This cup, donated by the senior editors of the CRIMSON, is the first of three similar prizes, also donated by the graduating editors, that will be presented for the next two years to those school papers, whose general make-up, news and editorials are most capably handled...
There were a marble bust and a slim bather spun in clay by Barbara Herbert of Manhattan, first U. S. sculptress ever admitted to the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Rosa Bonheur's pupil, Anna Klumpke of California, showed a hot-colored flower study. Young George Hill, who preserves what he can of the solitude and fresh air of his native northern Michigan by living in one of the loftiest studios on the Boulevard de Montparnasse, received fresh compliments for his clear, restful "Tea on a Balcony...
...week a thorn was extracted from the side of Vassar's faculty- compulsory chapel. Even as their contemporaries at Yale, Dartmouth, Amherst, Princeton and elsewhere have protested in these late years of undergraduate self-assertion that religion is a personal matter, so the young ladies on their high hill at Poughkeepsie have stoutly insisted that each should be permitted to save her soul in her own way, and that the community spirit expressed by daily and weekly chapel gatherings could be expressed quite as well by academic convocations for lectures and general discussion. Last winter the undergraduates presented...
Jill alone came down the hill...