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...service in the Appleton Chapel of the Memorial Church today at 8.45 o'clock this morning, held under the auspices of the Memorial Society. Henry Wilder Foote '97, Minister of the first Unitarian Church, Belmont, will give the commemorative address. A Baccalaureate Hymn, written by Lionel DeJersey Harvard, a lineal descendant of John Harvard, for his own Commencement in 1915, will be sung at the conclusion of the service after which the members of the Memorial Society will place a wreath on the John Harvard statue...
Harvard men who are lineal descendents of Civil War veterans are requested to send their names to the office of the Crimson...
Same day Generalissimo Chiang's bland, stogie-smoking brother-in-law by marriage, Dr. H. H. Kung, 75th lineal descendant of Confucius, returned to Nanking from a haggling expedition in North China. Hopping by airplane from general to general Dr. Kung had apparently cut a swath of bribery broader and more sweeping than any in recent Chinese annals. "I have had unqualified success," he beamed, "in cementing the political bonds of Northern leaders with Nanking...
...sesquicentennial. Each & every employe got half a month's salary as a bonus. A privately printed history of its first 150 years was written by no less a person than Allan Nevins, last year's Pulitzer Prize winner (Grover Cleveland}. Clients and depositors, many of them lineal descendants of original customers, sent armfuls of flowers. To become 17th president of Bank of New York John C. Traphagen went through the bank's usual ritual. A Chase National vice president, he was first nominated by the trustees for the requisite period of three weeks. After...
James Bryant Conant is a lineal descendant of Roger Conant, founder of Salem, Mass., and of Plymouth Colony's Governor William Bradford. A New Englander to the core, he loves New England and Harvard. In 1915 an Ohio rubber company offered him the top post in its research division. Said Graduate Student Conant, 22: "I'm going to be married and the kind of woman I'd marry wouldn't live in Ohio. If she would I wouldn't marry...