Word: lymans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dubious as to how well they are doing in the unsettled present, they are in no doubt about the glories of their past, and these glories they keep bright with anniversary celebrations. Having lately joined with other churches in celebrating the centenary of the birth of Evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody (TIME, Aug. 17), U. S. Presbyterians next laid plans to recall the fact that Presbyterian foreign missions were instituted a century ago. From this spring to next autumn the centenary will be celebrated with a pageant, a play, many a speech and a broadcast dinner. To the Centennial Council...
...George Lyman Kittredge '82, Gurney Professor of English Literature, emeritus, was guest speaker at Wellesley's Honors Day yesterday. He addressed the assembly in Memorial Chapel on "Shakspere and His Critics" as part of the celebration in honor of the scholars at Wellesley. In the past Professors Harlow Shapley and John H. Williams have been guest speakers...
When George Lyman Kittredge stalked jauntily out of Harvard 6 one mild May morning last spring, crowds collected to stamp and cheer, and many an official camera snapped busily. For more than a generation Mr. Kittredge had brought Shakspere to Harvard men, stripping the peet of four centuries' integument of other people's criticism, and clothing him in the vestments of that royal Elizabethan age in which he lived. So crowds gathered to honor the passing, with Mr. Kittredge's retirement, of a great Harvard tradition-English...
...preparation due to be issued in a few days, all undergraduates interested in taking part in the coming session of the League, whether as delegates or as unofficial observers, are urged to make application at once, since only a limited number of places remain available. Those interested should see Lyman B. Burbank '38, J-33 Winthrop House...
...Coast, in the offices of Surgeon General Parran in Washington and Social Hygienist Snow in Manhattan. But in a sense the wave may be considered a tremendous backwash from California. At Palo Alto and San Francisco in the late 1890s, stubby little William Freeman Snow and tall, lanky Ray Lyman Wilbur were undergraduates (with Herbert Hoover), medical students, later professors together. Dr. Wilbur became (1911) Dean of Stanford University's medical school. Dr. Snow went East, organized and became (1914) general director of the American Social Hygiene Association, a consolidation of well-meaning organizations which then primarily wanted...