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...ever ceased to make fundamental principles the entire content and purpose of its education. As a result, it occupies a special place in the esteem of scientists and engineers. Though it may have rivals, it has no superior anywhere in the world. "Other places," says Nobel Laureate Isidor Rabi of Columbia University, "have good people. But at Caltech, they are all good...
...four, when she played marches for her kindergarten class in São Paulo. By the time she was 14, and already well rounded in arts and languages, the Brazilian government had recognized her as a blazing prodigy, sent her to Paris, where she studied with the great Pedagogue Isidor Philipp. Back home in Brazil, her life was filled with many things besides her music: she married happily, and had a son and daughter; she took up the cause of woman's suffrage, helped out promising young musicians. She would have done more ("I would have liked to study...
Built in 1893 by men who knew the value of that citizenship-Isidor Straus (R. H. Macy & Co.), Jacob Schiff (Kuhn, Loeb & Co.), and other leaders of _New York's Jewish community-the Alliance filled a great gap in the lives of immigrants. There a man could come to learn English, use the library or the gymnasium, attend religious services or smoke a pipe with a Landsmann over a game of checkers. There mothers, still wearing sheitels, could learn the language that their children were picking up quickly in public school. And the kids themselves could come after school...
...Yale's famed Lit. magazine. The poem was prophetic, for destiny's doors seemed to develop a habit of opening before brainy young Richard Weil's imperious knock. The doors of Macy's, the department-store chain, opened because Weil was the grandson of Isidor Straus, one of the original owners. But Weil rose rapidly on his own merits. By 32, he had been propelled from a sales clerk to president of Bamberger's, Macy's Newark (N.J.) store. In 1949, at the age of 42, he became president of Macy...
Norman Scott Brien Gras. Gras as Isidor Straus Professor introduced the study of Business History to the world in 1927. For his specialty, he developed a theory about the evolution of capitalism through five stages; petty, mercantile, industrial, financial, and national...