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Harvard wasn't so much different a century ago in judge from the diary of Jacob Rhuff Mott of the Class of 1832, who "slept over prayers, disliked the food, and rejoiced unduly when his professors "missed" lectures...
...good days, when American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Co. were separate companies making (together) $20,000,000 a year (their joint 1939 net profit: $3,712,193), U. S. plumbing was both the butt and admiration of Europeans. Radiator's chairman was autocratic Clarence Mott Woolley. By the time they consolidated in 1929, they had an estimated stake of $35,000,000 in foreign plants to make goods that would raise Europe's standard of plumbing to that of the U. S. Of their 15 European plants, nearly half were in Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain. In that...
...killed in Mexico last summer, as the best player during his stay at Harvard. As far as handicaps go Corey is Dillingham's equal, with five goals indoors and four outside. He was one of the stars of last year's outstanding Eli trio and teamed with Mott Woolley, who was killed while playing last summer. Corey, a veteran of many years of playing in Long Island tournaments, will start at the number two sport Saturday night, with Chisholm, another Long Island tournaments, will start at the number two spot Saturday night, with Chisholm, another Long Island player...
...Presidents Charles Seymour of Yale University, Mildred Helen McAfee of Wellesley College, Elizabeth Cutter Morrow (acting) of Smith College, John Alexander Mackay of Princeton Theological Seminary, Henry Sloane Coffin of Union Theological Seminary; Theologians Niebuhr, William Adams Brown, Howard Chandler Robbins, Henry Pitney Van Dusen; Church Laymen John Raleigh Mott, Robert Elliott Speer, Charles Phelps Taft...
...chale is the famed French heroine-nurse of World War I who as Mile Georgette Saint-Paul won the Legion of Honor, Croix de Guerre with two palms and two stars, Müdaille des Epidemics, the U. S. Certificate of Merit. She is now Mrs. T. Bentley Mott, wife of the head of the American Fund for French Wounded, Colonel Mott, onetime liaison officer between Marshal Foch and General Pershing. The whole Biarritz colony, French and foreign, are exceptionally war-work-minded, last week were furiously getting truckloads of warm clothing, cigarets and sweets off to the Maginot Line...