Word: lester
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago Latin School has no endowment; its only endowed scholarship is one Headmaster Northrop brought with him in 1926. A fine athletic field was given in 1928 in memory of the late Kersey Coates Reed, but the school would have preferred cash or endowed chairs. Many Chicagoans (like Trustee Lester Armour) have moved to their country homes, put their children in suburban schools. Others have taken their children out of Chicago Latin School, put them in Eastern boarding schools (Headmaster Northrop has a son at Groton, a pretty daughter at Vassar...
...winner of the Lee Wade prize was M. F. Loewenstein '32, and of the Boylston prize, Charles Sedgewick '34. In former years the contest has been entered by such men as Charles Eliot Norton '46, Albert Bushnell Hart '80, Charles Townsend Copeland '82, George Russell Agassiz '84, Irvah Lester Winter '86, William E. B. Du Bois '90, and John Haynes Holmes...
...anniversary number. Editor George Teeple Eggleston resisted the temptation to fill the book with reprints of 50-year-old drawings and text. The cover is a dainty color-photograph of a group modelled in soap by Lester Gaba-a girl of the iSSo's and' a modern girl (platinum blonde) raising goblets to the famed Life cherub. The body of the magazine looks like a normal current issue with these exceptions: Frontispiece is a reproduction of the first cover, drawn by Artist Mitchell-a pen-&-ink sketch showing Father Time fiddling while two exceedingly fat cherubs dance together...
...Major Lester Draper ("Bing") Seymour is the man E. L. Cord wanted in place of La Motte Cohu last spring. At that time Cord was not strong enough to have Seymour elected. But he did succeed in having President Cohu's undated resignation placed in care of Avco Board Chairman William Averell Harriman, just in case. For several weeks matters went smoothly, and one day - the story goes - when Cord, Cohu & Harriman were riding in a taxicab, Cord asked Banker Harriman for the resignation, tore it up. When hostilities reopened, he bitterly regretted his impulse...
...spider spun .on day & night. Last week, when the spider had spun and the clock undone some 420 times, clock and spider were sent to the University of Akron's Professor Walter Charles Kraatz. The insect had now become the size of an ordinary house spider. Director Harold Lester Madison of Cleveland's Museum of Natural History scoffed the idea of its growing, said the original "black dot" must have been an offspring of the present spider. He thought the cannibalistic female was eating her children or perhaps her husband, lost somewhere in the clockworks. Dr. Kraatz said...