Word: lately
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gift of $6,000 from members of the Harvard Club of New York for the furnishing of one of the rooms in the new branch of The Boys Club now in process of construction at 321 East 111th Street. The room has been given in memory of the late Evert Jansen Wendell of the class of 1882 at Harvard University who was a prominent track athlete and who spent most of his life in work among boys. The late Mr. Wendell was an overseer of Harvard University and was vice president of The Harvard Club at the time...
...Another man having driven a car away and parked it in the vicinity of a downtown theater rushed in late that night and reported it stolen. When found the next day where it had passed the night in lonely solitude the mileage confirmed the suspicion that it had merely been mislaid...
...University, considers the various high points of college and high school education unprejudicedly and in a manner which only one with a scope as is his could attempt. Another vast field for intellectual advancement which is very favorably considered by this eminent savant is that of self-education. In late years educators seem to have come to the conclusion both from experiment and experience that education acquired by one's own seeking, particularly along some special line of interest, is not only much more quickly apprehended but also more readily retained. Another point in favor of self-education gained from...
...Dana from his home, Bath, Me. Editor Dana invited him to work at the then fabulous salary of $50 per week. This rose to $20,000 a year during the many years that Mr. Mitchell penned the Sun's leading editorials, famed for their tart penetration. When the late Publisher Munsey purchased the Sun (1916) he retained Mr. Mitchell as editorial chief. Not until last year did Mr. Mitchell retire...
...confused with the Camp Fire Girls, founded by the late Dr. Luther. H. Gulick and Mrs. Gulick ("Timanous" and "Hiltini") at Wohelo (their summer camp), Lake Sebago, Me., also founded in 1912. Membership 170,000. ?He originally owned a seashell souvenir business, then founded the Shell Transport and Trading Co. which later joined its chief rival, The Royal Dutch Oil Co., to form The Royal Dutch-Shell trust...