Word: jersey
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After a nervous session in the ballot room, it was announced that Dean Mathey, Princeton, N. J., had been elected trustee of Princeton University from the Second Region (comprising Manhattan and the State of New Jersey). This region sends more sons to Princeton than any other. Yet Mr. Mathey (of the class of 1912) is the youngest member of the board of trustees, was selected from a field of six candidates, "after the most spirited voting in the history of the University." Some of the men whom Mr. Mathey will help direct the destiny of Princeton are Charles Scribner (books...
Rutgers University Arthur Harry Moore, Governor of New Jersey...
...Jersey City...
Died. Judge John Wesley Wescott, 78, onetime Attorney General of New Jersey, who nominated Woodrow Wilson for the presidency at the Democratic National Convention in 1912 and again in 1916; in Haddonfield, N. J.; of heart disease. He was uncle of Irving Pisher, famed economist...
...last week he did not decline his third election. On the newsgatherers' heels came bishops from Connecticut, New Jersey, Colorado. These congratulated, reassured him. Surely, they might have said, the Episcopal Church need not fear being interpreted as a champion of divorce. Dr. Silver's divorce took place a long time ago. He has never remarried and has stricken mention of an unhappy episode of his youth from public records of his life. His reputation is high and enviable, as Nebraska pastor (1894-1901), as; U. S. Army chaplain (1901-10), as mission secretary for the southwestern...