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...called upon five learned friends to submit plans for the foundation of the professorships and handed these over to the Corporation for their selection and approval of the best. Isaac Greenwood '85 was appointed the first professor of this foundation. The present holder of the chair is Theodore Lyman...
Under the will of Isaac Royall, who died in 1781, Harvard College received a bequest of more than 2,000 acres of land in the towns of Granby and Royalton, in Worcester County, Mass. The donor, who was born in Antigua, was the son of a merchant of great wealth, who, having purchased extensive estates in New England, had emigrated to Massachusetts in 1738. Isaac Royall settled in Charlestown, of which town he was a Representative for nine years. Later, he became a Counsellor, and held that office until 1774. However, says Josiah Quincy '28, "his judgment...
Engaged. W. Maretta Singer, daughter of Paris Singer of Paris, granddaughter of Isaac Singer, the original sewing machine potentate; to Sir Reginald Leeds, Baronet, of "Red Roofs," Cheltenham, England...
Into the ocean at Biddeford Pool, Me., plunged plucky James Montgomery Flagg, famed artist, well-paid pen-and-ink perpetrator of languid women, stout men, old home scenes. Beating through storm-twirled waves, while lightning flashed above him like a white, demented eyeball, he swam to the side of Isaac Cook, drowning realtor, pulled him shoreward. Mr. Cook, safe on shore, offered no word of thanks. His breath made no mist upon a mirror. Saved from drowning, he had died of heart disease...
Havelock Ellis-Isaac Goldberg ($4). Biography and criticism of "the most civilized Englishman"-fulsome but sound...