Word: ingram
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...been out of the boat for some time on account of an injury to his hand which he sustained while on duty in one of the ship drills, but has recovered sufficiently to row in the race next Wednesday. The position of stroke, made vacant by the loss of Ingram who was perhaps the greatest factor in the success of the crew last year, has been the most difficult to fill. Kinkaid, the new stroke, is big and powerful, but lacks experience, as he has never stroked before. The other men in the boat have almost all been developed from...
...Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram, Bishop of London, spoke in Sanders Theatre last evening before a large audience on "Some Problems of Great Cities." President Eliot introduced him as a holder of one of the most venerable and oldest ecclesiastical offices in the world, a social worker of great success, and a sympathizer with all classes and conditions...
...first fearful problems that we have to meet, said Bishop Ingram, is the great increase in the population of London, an increase which amounts to at least 100,000 every year. In addition, all our little country villages are being swallowed up year after year and others are growing every day. Another problem is the appalling overcrowding of London which we already have. The mortality is terrible, especially among children, of whom 52 out of every thousand die yearly, whereas the ordinary rate is not more than 18. At least half of these deaths are due to preventable diseases...
After Bishop Ingram's address President Eliot said a few words of acknowledgment for a book which the Bishop presented to Harvard University. It was a book written by Nathan Prince 1718, containing a sort of summary of his studies, which had for some unknown reason been found in the Bishop's library...
...LECTURE. "Some Problems of Great Cities." Rt. Rev. A. F. Winnington Ingram, Bishop of London. Sanders Theatre...