Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard University Branch of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers will have its first meeting of the year tonight at 7.30 o'clock in Pierce Hall 202. A short business session is to be followed by two student talks. P. R. Lincoln '31 will speak on "A Westinghouse Network Relay" and R. H. Norris 1G will talk on "Research Engineering." The Harvard branch of the Institute is organized to allow students of Electrical Engineering in the Engineering School to become acquainted with outside engineering organizations and electrical problems confronting manufacturing concerns...
...according to M. S. Balch '25, instructor and tutor who has made a private collection of "howlers", culled from themes submitted in English A. Mr. Balch called attention to the imagination brought to bear in a theme about the Great Emancipator, by a Freshman Gamaliel Bradford who wrote, "Abe Lincoln, his big feet more than filling the shoes of his weak-kneed predecessor, Buchanan, stepped into that gay, social whirl of guile and graft at Washington with a threatening warcloud darkening the Southern horizon." Another budding historian explained that "Queen Elizabeth was by this time firmly entrenched on her throne...
...Long Island socialite, president oi Pinkerton's National Detective Agency; as the result of mustard-gassing in the War; at the Presbyterian Hospital, Manhattan. Pinkerton's first got fame before the Civil War when Allan Pinkerton, a bluff Scotch cooper, unearthed & pre-vented a plot to assassinate Lincoln on the way to his first inauguration. That Allan Pinkerton formed for Lincoln the first national secret service. Since then, three Pinkertons have headed the agency, made it largest in the world. Possible next president: Robert Allan Pinkerton (just out of Harvard), son of the late president, great-grandson...
...Dalles, Ore., Louis Comini, granite worker, awaited the birth of Theodore Roosevelt Comini to add to his other sons-Leo McKinley. Abraham Lincoln, Calvin Coolidge Comini. "But right along with Theodore Roosevelt Comini was little Mussolini Comini," said Louis Comini later...
West: Nebraska v. Montana, at Lincoln; Oregon State v. Pacific U. at Corvallis; Oregon v. Idaho, at Eugene; Stanford v. Southern California, at Palo Alto; Utah Aggies v. Wyoming, at Logan; Washington v. California, at Seattle...