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Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.) President Isaiah Bowman of Johns Hopkins University LL.D. President Thomas Sovereign Gates of the University of Pennsylvania. .. .LL.D. President William Edwin Hall of the Boys' Club Federation of America. . .M.A. President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago LL.D. President Frank Baldwin Jewett of Bell Telephone Laboratories D.Sc. Historian Samuel Eliot Morison. .. .Litt.D. Historian George Macauley Trevelyan.Litt...
FRANK BALDWIN JEWETT: DOCTOR OF SCIENCE, of New York City, electrical engineer, President of the Bell Telephone Laboratories since 1925. "The creator of a famous laboratory whence came miracles of modern telephony, an engineer who points the way for industry to follow...
...income provided by his father, a Hungarian who for years conducted a prosperous Manhattan importing & exporting business, Gellert began his social and musical investigations. For long trips he used a ramshackle old Jewett in which he kept a cot. More often he hiked through the backlands, stopping at sundown at some shack where he would ask the Negro owner if he could spend the night. Thus he won the confidence of Negroes, attended their baptisms, weddings, funerals, heard them sing songs they ordinarily would rather the white folk did not hear...
Recommendations for the awards are made by a committee consisting of Frank B. Jewett of New York, chairman, and president of the Bell Telephone Laboratories; Simon Flexner of New York, former director of the laboratories of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research; and William Scott Ferguson, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History...
Wives of members of the faculty acting as patronesses are Mesdames George R. Agassiz, Edward Ballantine, James Bryant Conant, Archibald Davison, Edward Bryant Conant. Archibald Davison. Edward Burlingame Hill, James R. Jewett, Roger I. Lee, Louis T. A. Mercier...