Word: mccosh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ages for five hunner year at least. Anither writer chiel, that foonded the city o' Gait, Ontario, and hauds a place in the latest edition o' Wabster's International Dictionary, some 90 year after his daith, was a "gaping Ayrshire yokel," tae. An' Dr. McCosh, President o' Princeton College, Princeton, N. J., was anither. An' sae was Lord Stevenson, famed controller o' rubber, (apologies tae TIME here) who made Herbert Hoover sae jumpy two or three year sin' that some o' oor American papers said that Herbert got his feegurs...
...Wall Street's oldest financier (he relinquished the presidency of the U. S. Trust Co. 24 years ago, serving as chairman of the board thereafter) and as Columbia's oldest living graduate, Mr. Stewart is also Princeton's oldest official. He has seen the regimes of Presidents Maclean, McCosh, Patton, Wilson, Stewart and Hibben. Well started on his second century of life, he lives in Manhattan in good spirits, good health...
Freshmen should not walk on the walk in front of Nassau Hall or on McCosh Walk...
Princeton, N. J. January 14.--Princeton held a special funeral service today for Harold B. Rees Jr. of Cedarhurst, L. I., who died at the McCosh Infirmary yesterday from injuries received in a Freshman hockey game Saturday. The remains have been sent to Asheville, N. C., for interment there tomorrow...
...literature is a good-sized world in itself. The mere word "philosophy" stirs the bile of some folks. According to that accomplished humanist-philosopher, George Santayana, it has very largely come to mean "psychology" in the United States. Dean West must remember with delight the distinction attributed to President McCosh: "When two men are talking and one of them understands what the talk is about. that is metapheesics; when neither of them understands it, that is philosophy...