Word: jordans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Four Saturday evening entertainments at Jordan Hall in Boston have been arranged for the coming winter season, extending from October 26 to January 12. The schedule is three parts music and one part poetry, and each evening has some special attraction...
David Starr Jordan, ichthyologist, peace advocate, useful citizen, and President Emeritus of Leland Stanford, Jr., University, was elected President of the Pacific Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, meeting at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. The recent solar eclipse, protection of the fishing industry, seismic disturbances were the chief topics of interest...
...Pritchett, of the Carnegie Foundation, feels it unlikely that the award will produce any feasible recommendation other than a recommendation for some sort of " international association for common education." President Faunce, of Brown, thinks the studying done for the award will widen the American horizon, as does Chancellor Emeritus Jordan, of Leland Stanford. President Hopkins, of Dartmouth, believes the award may prove "the most helpful stimulus yet proposed for making articulate the desire of the American people for such increased spirit of neighborliness among the peoples of the world as will most effectively make for peace...
...conference's President was Dr. Augustus O. Thomas, of Maine, Dr. David Starr Jordan, pre-eminent advocate of Pacific peace, present, said: " If we cannot educate for peace it is not worth while to educate...
Maynard Fred Jordan, A.M. (Astronomy...