Word: leonards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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WALTER M. LEONARD...
Arrangements have been made again this year by the committee to have the members of the class of 1926 measured by the Harvard Cooperative Society for caps and gowns. The contract for the Class Day costumes has been given to the Cotrell and Leonard Company of Albany, New York, and this is the only firm that will be officially recognized by the committee. The details of ordering and delivering the caps and gowns will be handled for this company by the Cooperative store...
...this that gave the impetus and the direction to most of modern Russian composing, and it was through this that he exerted such a profound influence on men like Rimsky-Korsakov. His own compositions, however, although few, are as noteworthy as his influence. Professor Hill, assisted by Mr. Leonard, will give illustrations from them at noon today in the Music Building, as a part of Music 4d, Professor Hill's course on the Russian nationalists from Glinka to Stravinsky...
...group of those favoring the adoption of the metric system is wide and notable. It includes among scientists Thomas A. Edison, Luther Burbank and Glenn H. Curtiss. It includes Leonard Wood and Admiral Sims. It includes Elihu Root, John Barton Payne, Newton D. Baker and William G. McAdoo. It included John Hays Hammond and Samuel Vauclain. It includes Arthur Brisbane and Dr. Frank Crane, and includes General Pershing, who saw the A. E. F. acquire the use of it in France and found it both convenient and not too hard to learn. Its proponents argue for it that no country...
...offense of lese-majesty has evidently become a felony in some parts of America's far-flung empire. Antonio D. Pagua, Councilman-elect of Manila, was convicted yesterday and sentenced to four months' imprisonment on a charge of having insulted Leonard Wood, the present governor-general of the Philippines. The culprit's offence had consisted of referring to the general in a recent political campaign as an "autocrat" and a "usurper of Philippine autonomy",--terms not altogether indefensible in view of the general's well-known partiality for military methods...