Word: lymans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years Elliott Speer has been president of the corporators & trustees of the Northfield Schools which Evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody founded 50 years ago for worthy youngsters who lacked advantages. Last year he finished raising $2,750,000 for the Northfield Schools, took his wife and three children off to Edinburgh, where he is now taking his second degree. When he returns to become Mount Hermon's principal he may sit on his front lawn, look across the Connecticut River at Northfield Seminary for girls, and like "Doc" Cutler reflect: "If the boys want to get over there, they...
National Electric Power Co. also acquired rich properties in New Jersey which were increased last year with the purchase, by a subsidiary, of a company previously controlled by Mr. Insull's fellow Chicagoan, Harley Lyman Clarke, through Utilities Power & Light. In 1931 Mr. Insull bought the eastern electric and water properties of Abram Edward Fitkin's Atlantic Public Utilities, Inc., giving him a foothold in every Atlantic State except Rhode Island...
Secretary of the Interior Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur attended the W. & J. inauguration, urged that "the college and all that it stands for must volunteer to accept its measure of the responsibility of carrying our Nation forward." In his inaugural address Dr. Hutchison flayed the "false, materialistic doctrine" of going to college "because it pays," praised the oldtime college education which was "inviting only to those who did not set profit or wealth as their main objectives in life." Washington & Jefferson, chartered in 1787, is the oldest college west of the Alleghenies. Some of its original land is said...
...Banker Morgan resides on Madison Avenue in the block bounded by Park Avenue, 36th & 37th Streets. In addition to the Morgan home, library and museum the block is occupied by: Brother-in-Law Herbert Livingston Satterlee, Socialites Lyman J. Delano and Edwin Wright Sheldon, Drs. Edwin A. Spies and Israel Fleiss, the new Union League Club...
...Cambridge (TIME, Mar. 7). In the excitement of dedicating Massachusetts Institute of Technology's new spectroscopic laboratory, the visitors paid scant attention to the dedication of the last section of Harvard's group of buildings for the study of Physics. Between the Jefferson Physical Laboratory (Professor Theodore Lyman, director) and the Cruft High Tension Electrical Laboratory (Professor George Washington Pierce, director) with its two 100-ft. wireless towers-between them was a space, which now has been enclosed by a connecting wing of workrooms...