Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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FAMED in the scientific world as one of the few men, if not the only man, who could understand the intricate mathematics of Harvard's most famous higher mathematician, Benjamin Pierce, Thomas Hill is equally famed in the educational world as being not only an able scholar, but a sensible and efficient administrator. This life of Harvard's Twentieth President, Mr. Land has designed "to be merely an introduction of Dr. Hill to the world he left forty-two years ago." Few today are left who could expound the educational and mathematical theories of this...
...much of it is drawn from letters and diaries that Hill kept, its accuracy cannot be questioned and actual quotations from these make the biography as readable as one may desire. Few first-band accounts of college life in the early forties and late thirties of the past century remain for public view today, but with the help of personal files this book contains an exceedingly fine contemporary account, written by Hill, of the Harvard of that time. This generation, brought up to understand that the boys of a century ago were polite little drones spending all of their time...
...announcement has been made by the Institute of Geographical exploration that Captain Bruce C. Hill will replace Captain Dache M. Reeves as lecturer in the course of Aerophotography. Captain Hill is the third of four men who are to lecture in the course. Captain Reeves and Captain Stevens having already completed their work...
...Captain Hill comes from Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio and has been in the service for 18 years. He took over his classes yesterday for the first time and will give his first public lecture on Wednesday, March 21 in the auditorium of the School of Geography. The subject of the lecture will be "The Flying Surveyor...
...Steel. President Cornelius Francis Kelley of Anaconda Copper got $249,232 in 1932, against $345,000 in 1929. Eugene Gifford Grace of Bethlehem Steel got a $1,600,000 bonus in 1929 but his $12,000 salary had been upped to $180,000 for 1932. That year George Washington Hill was paid a $120,000 salary and a $705,607 bonus, against salary & bonus of $605,613 in 1929. Another notable bonus increase was Thomas John Watson's, who as president of International Business Machines was paid $258,106 in 1929 and $394,015 in 1932, plus a regular...