Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...upon the stage,--does not consider his martyrdom in such a light. He denies any attempt to reap publicity, swearing his simple intention of showing mankind the meaning of physical endurance. To this end he subsists solely upon water, coffee and cigarettes, and remains perched in the blue New Jersey sky with a pair of head-phones on his ears, doubtless deeming the latter torture the ultimate in self-mortification...
...official self soon reminded Author Hoover to leave beatitudes and state his case, which he did with much clarity and despatch. The U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, he said, knows there are ten million U. S. fishermen. Its New Jersey reports suggest that each fisherman catches only 4.5 fish per annum. Mr. Hoover proposed an idea...
...memorial to Lionel de Jersey Harvard, first of his name to attend the college his ancestor founded, is a fitting acknowledgment of a graceful gesture on the part of the young Englishman who upheld the glory of his name in the Great War. It should serve as a reminder to all who see it, of the peculiarly close relations which lay between him and the college which bears his family name. The generosity of John Harvard was well commemorated by the presence of his descendant in the New England Cambridge; that presence, in turn, is now worthily commemorated...
...tribute to the memory of Lionel de Jersey Harvard '15, only lineal descendant of John Harvard to graduate from Harvard College, will be put in place this summer according to the current issue of the Alumni Bulletin. Three identical bronze tablets will be unveiled at the John Harvard house at Stratford-on-Avon, England, Lionel Hall, and the D. U. Clubhouse, Cambridge...
Lionel de Jersey Harvard was born at Lewisham, England, on June 3, 1893, the son of Mr. Thomas Harvard, a prosperous London business man. At the age of eighteen he was entered for Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where many of his ancestors, including John Harvard, had received their education. In the summer of 1911, however, he was persuaded by a group of Harvard graduates to come to America and enter Harvard. He arrived at the opening of the college term in September and was soon embarked upon the career of an undergraduate. His coming to Cambridge attracted wide attention, and much...