Word: honorers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many other plans of similar intent now in operation in various places. Meiklejohn has at Wisconsin a college where there is no classroom teaching, and the emphasis is on joint research. Rollins College has set its students free from all formal routine for an experimental term of six months. Honor students at Swarthmore and elsewhere take no "courses" at all in their last two years, but spend their time getting ready for the final comprehensive examinations...
...succor of the American Near East Relief, which maintains agents and nurses permanently in Greece. Meanwhile rich Athenians contributed generously and rapidly to a relief fund established by Old Paul Koun-douriotis, the revered admiral who is President of Greece because he alone is trusted as a man of honor-much as Germans trust Old Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg...
...Today the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers meets here one century after the invention of John Thorp, to honor his memory by dedicating this tablet. We should all solemnly resolve that the industry which John Thorp, more than any other man, made possible, shall not languish, but shall gather renewed energy to the end that the textile industry of New England shall regain the leadership to which it is entitled...
Devices for securing funds for good works are multifarious and strange. None, certainly, is more strange or ingenious than the dinner which will be given, in Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Houston, Los Angeles, Manhattan, Milwaukee. Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, on May 21, in honor of the Rev. Dr. Henry Pereira Mendes, Founder and Honorary President of the Union of Orthodox Congregations of America. At this dinner, carrying to an extreme the fad for inexpensive banqueting which has been previously evidenced, no food whatever will be served. The guests-10,000 will be invited-will nonetheless pay for their good dinner...
Theodore of Amasia lived and died for his faith in God many centuries ago. In his honor, the citizens of Jerash, Trans-jordania, built a church with three apses, a court and a fountain. The ruins of this church were found last week by a Yale Archeologist, one J. W. Crawfoot...