Word: matthews
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Henry Noble MacCracken,* President of Vassar College: "A cane which once spanked Matthew Vassar, founder of Vassar College, when he returned home after running away, was presented to our institution. This cane will be used by the students in leading cheers and songs...
Professor John Leonard Conger, head of the department of history and government at Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois, will be visiting lecturer in history and Professor George Matthew Dutcher of Wesleyan University will lecture in the same department...
Since 1690 Matthew Clarkson and his descendants have been collecting furniture, silver and other examples of American decorative art. The pedigreed collection has now been given to the Metropolitan Museum. Matthew Clarkson came to New York as Secretary of the Province under William and Mary. He married Katherina van Schaick of Albany, and their children's children have ever since been prominent in Manhattan. The Clarkson family treasures- two-handled silver bowls, engraved patch boxes, a creamer by William Gilbert, chairs by Duncan Phyfe, a carved door from Turkestan, etc.-are now exhibited...
...George Matthew Dutcher, Ph.D., Lecturer on History...
Charles M. Miller, of Vicksburg, Miss., has copyrighted The Lord's Prayer. Ordinarily a man copyrights what he has written or what he buys from another man who has written it. Charles W. Miller did neither. He took The Lord's Prayer as reported by St. Matthew, broke it up into phrases and, following each, placed a Biblical text culled from other Scriptural writers, and published it on the editorial page of Editor and Publisher. Not a word of his copyrighted work is he the author of except "(Mat. VI:9"), "(I Cor. XII:13)," etc. What...