Word: livingstones
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the War, since the appointment of suave, handsome, slightly dull Livingston Farrand as president, Cornell vitality has ebbed. What new ideas American education has today come elsewhere than from Cornell. Cornell's great scientists have gone. One of the last was famed "structuralist," psychologist, Edward Bradford Titchener (died 1927). Students from Europe, the Orient, the 48 States, no longer seek Cornell. Now many of those from outside New York State come as sons of loyal old graduates. Hiram Sibley's grandson is a Harvard sophomore. Cornell never drew young socialites from smart Eastern schools. Once...
Among those who will be absent for the entire academic year are as follows: John Livingston Lowes, professor of English, who will go to England for a year as the first holder of the George Eastman Visiting Fellowship at Balliol College; Oliver M. W. Sprague '94, Edmund Cogswell Convers Professor of Banking and Finance, who will serve the Bank of England as one of the staff; and Alexander von Stael-Holstein, professor of Central Asian Philology, who will continue his present leave of absence...
...next incumbent of the Francis Lee Higginson Professorship thus enters upon a tradition which will not soon be forgotten by Harvard men. It is fitting that Professor John Livingston Lowes should be called upon to continue that tradition...
...syndicates to contend for the honor of defending America's cup. Awaiting Enterprise at City Island, N. Y., was "the biggest mast ever stepped into a sailing craft of any kind anywhere." Her backers: Harold Stirling Vanderbilt. Winthrop Williams Aldrich, Vincent Astor. George Fisher Baker Jr., Ogden Livingston Mills. E. Walter Clark, Floyd Leslie Carlisle. George Whitney. Christener: Mrs. Aldrich...
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...