Word: merritt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rooms stand now, traces renfain of much that transpired within them. On the inside of a closet door there is a painting, reported as the work of F. D. Merritt, who lived in the rooms at one time, and later was commissioned by the University to make the portrait of Sopbocles, the eminent Greek professor, which now hangs in the faculty room in University Hall. Men who lived in the rooms 50 years ago have told of a painting in the same room, reputed to have extended all around the walls near the floor, in which the faculty members...
White Alderman Merritt Martindale, senior Councilman, interrupted Mr, Whitlock. "Now, Bill." he said, "I hope you're not going to take a wrong view of us whites. The difference is there and it does no good to try to hide...
Playing against Penr on the Agawamis Country Club links, the University golfers lost four of the six twosomes and all three foursomes. The best playing of the day was lone by Merritt of Penn who made the first nine holes in two over...
...before the Civil War. Isaac Merritt Singer (1811-75) was a Yankee peddler hawking notions through Connecticut when he came across the lock stitch sewing machine that Elias Howe (1819-67) had invented in 1846. Peddler Singer made some modifications, upon which he got a patent in 1852. There were law suits, in which Edward A. Clark, Manhattan lawyer, represented Singer. Lawyer and client formed the Singer corporation. Mr. Hopper was their bookkeeper at $20 a week. To him they came. Said Singer: "Clark won't let me be president, and I swear...
...Jennison '30; R. H. Jones '30; H. T. King '30; F. L. Krismeyer '30; H. W. Lamb '30; C. M. Lauterhahn '30; G. B. Lee '30; V. M. Longstreet '30; J. A. McClellan '30; J. P. Maloney '30; T. C. Mayers '30; A. R. Maynard '30; Robert Merritt '30: W. N. Middleton '30; J. H. Muncaster '30; J. T. Murphy '30; D. A. Nathans '30; C. T. Nelson '30; F. E. Nugent '30; Peter Peterson '30; M. E. Pitis '30; J. C. Rambo '30; C. L. Rankin '30; L. C. Reynolds '30; J. C. Roark '30; S. C. Robinson...