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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Campbell Merriam, 59, paleontologist, educator, has been president of the Carnegie Institution since 1920 and administrator of its 13 subsidiary bodies of scientific research. He is a veritable tycoon. But where most tycoons are acquisitive of fortunes, he is a dispenser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Genetics | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...live entirely bleak and barren lives. They may improve their minds. For light reading, they will have: The Little Blue Books (1,280 volumes donated by the Haldernan-Julius Co.), the Harvard Classics, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, a set of the works of Rudyard Kipling (Doubleday, Doran), a dictionary (Merriam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Byrd's Plans | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

...contestants, in the order in which they were listed by the judges follows: N. M. Pusey '28 (H) 1; J. L. McLane ocC (H) 2; G. T. Washington (Y) 3; S. F. Kennedy (Y) 4; J. S. Eells, Jr., (Y) 5; L. J. Rittenhand '28 (H) 6; J. D. Merriam '28 (H) 7; E. C. Wilkins '28 (H) 8; P. H. Gray Jr., (Y) 9; J. E. Barnett '28 (H) 10; R. T. Sharpe '28 (H) 11; Harold Strauss '28 (H) 12; J. K. Jessup (Y) 13; J. F. Rettger (Y) 14; J. M. Bernstein (Y) 15; R. T. Sherman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Judges Give Verdict to Harvard in Scholastic Contest With Yale | 6/1/1928 | See Source »

...comprising the Harvard team are J. E. Barnett '28, H. T. Dolan '28, J. L. Lane ocC., J. D. Merriam '28, L. J. Rittenband '29, R. T. Sharpe '28, R. T. Sherman '28, Harold Strauss '28, and E. C. Wilkins '28. The alternates are G. B. Bingham '28, and C. H. Hartwig '28. Yale will be represented by D. H. Ballous, J. M. Berenstein, T. W. Copeland, J. S. Eels Jr., P. H. Gray Jr., R. A. Huntingdon Jr., J. K. Jessup, S. F. Kennedy, J. F. Rettger, and G. H. Washington, with G. B. Berger Jr., D. G. Gerg...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD AND YALE SCHOLARS ENGAGE IN BATTLE OF WITS | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

...team with its two alternates is as follows: John Egger Barnett '28 of Clinton, Mo.; Henry Thomas Dolan '28 of Scranton, Pa.; James Latimer McLane ocC. of Garrison, Md.; John Douglas Merriam '28 of Newton, N. J.; Nathan Marsh Pusey '28 of Council Bluffs, la.; Laurence James Rittenband '29 of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Russell Thornley Sharpe '28 of East Greenwich, R. I.; Richard Thomas Sherman '28 of Algona, Ia.; Harold Strauss '28 of New York City; Edward Carl Wilkins '28 of Springfield, Mass. The two alternates are: George Barry Bingham '28 of Glenview, Ky., and Carl Harmon Hartwig...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NAMES OF MEN OF SCHOLASTIC TEAM ARE ANNOUNCED | 4/25/1928 | See Source »

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