Word: lebaron
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dean LeBaron Russell Briggs became Radcliffe's second president in 1903, and Ada Comstock Notestein succeeded him in 1923. The college was growing, but Harvard scarcely noted that it was populated by anything more than a race of flat-chested creatures in horn-rimmed spectacles. By the time that Historian Wilbur Jordan took over in 1943, the old jokes were still alive ("Is that a Radcliffe girl, or did a horse step on her face...
NUCLEAR ENERGY for peacetime use will get a boost from a group of businessmen who have banded together for atomic projects. The group, which includes the Rockefeller, Astor, Firestone and Mellon interests, has hired Robert LeBaron, former assistant (for atomic energy) to the Secretary of Defense to explore possibilities for atomic projects in such fields as power and medicine, may soon set up a program for private investment...
...Clubs were most popular, and the whole senior class could sit together on the steps of Agassiz. Also reported are the coed races that the girls won in '46 by "sheer brain power"--reported the Yearbook--the boys mistook the finish line. Correspondence of the Annex's second president. LeBaron Russell Briggs, shows the college's early difficulties...
Through the pages march dilettante students, crusty old tutors, Boston Brahmans, and grand old men like "Kitty," "Copey," and Dean LeBaron Russell Briggs, of wrinkled but beloved visage. The succession of university Presidents appear too, with Jared Sparks in 1849 politely refusing a female applicant ("the time may come when female claims will be more justly valued"), or Thomas Hill, in 1862 warning Abraham Lincoln about the behavior of his son, or Eliot, Lowell and Conant striving eloquently to define the meaning of Harvard...
...until the middle of the 19th century that builders fully understood and applied the use of steel in tension on a calculated basis . . . Roebling began to hang the Brooklyn Bridge on a spider web of steel cables in 1868 . . . Major William LeBaron Jenny designed the first true steel-frame building in Chicago in 1883 . . . In the spring of 1896, Frank Lloyd Wright built a wooden windmill tower at Spring Green, Wis. It was slender and 60 ft. high, built of two-by-fours and wood sheathing anchored to a heavy stone foundation. The lightweight wood construction was designed in perfect...