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Seekers could, early this week (April 8), have found Dr. Welch seated with Herbert Hoover, President Livingston Farrand of Cornell and Director Simon Flexner of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, on the stage of Memorial Continental Hall in Washington. He was fidgeting nervously, smiling sheepishly under a barrage of praise which was going out to scores of notables who sat peering at him from the audience, and to radio listeners all over the world. It was Dr. Welch's 80th birthday party. To uphold the ancient custom of birthday present-giving the committee in charge of the celebration...
Already in second place with 8,682 contributing alumni, the campaign began with a big alumni dinner in Manhattan from which, as in the Yale drive, speeches were broadcast over a network of 19 stations. The speakers: President Livingston Farrand; onetime (1892-1920) President Jacob Gould Schurman, retired U. S. Ambassador to Germany; Myron Charles Taylor (Cornell, 1894), Chairman of the Finance Committee of U. S. Steel Corp., who recently gave $1,500,000 for a new Cornell Law School. With 41,000 living alumni (5,000 more than Yale), Cornellians felt confident of "a rather unique intercollegiate championship...
...which represents a demotion. Under Mr. Wiggin will be: bespectacled Chairman of the Executive Committee John McHugh, who was "discovered" in Sioux City by Gates W. McGarrah ; Chairman of the Board Charles Simonton McCain, who began banking by beginning banks in Arkansas; youthful Vice Chairman of the Board Robert Livingston Clarkson, scion of a banking family; President Winthrop Williams Aldrich, young Rockefeller-sponsored Equitable president. Behind these will be a directorate whose membership is a roster of potency in railroads, copper, chemistry, shipping, insurance, steel, communications...
HARVARD UNION Wenner, l.f. r.f., Rice Mahady, Baskerville, r.f. l.f., Hotaling Pierce, c. c., Livingstone Farrell, Rex, l.g. r.g., Nitchman Nido, r.g. l.g., Bullard, Livingston...
Birthday. John Barton Payne, Chairman of the American Red Cross; at Washington. Date: Jan. 26. Age: 75. To felicitate him at Red Cross headquarters came General John Joseph Pershing. Ogden Livingston Mills, Charles Evans Hughes Jr., Cornelius Newton Bliss, Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas...