Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rockefeller asked that the money be used toward the construction and partial endowment of a classroom building to be named in memory of his father-in-law. Senator Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island, who died...
...Engene Nelson, who was to have joined Dr. Saul Hertz of the Medical School in a project to apply unclear physics to medicine, was killed with his wife. Anne Elizabeth, when their light plane crashed near Pine Plains New York Sunday night...
...Chairman Spring Blood Drive. Jack Willis of Mathews Hall--National Scholarship Holder, Caisson Club Dance Committee. Albert J. Klingel, Jr., of Holworthy Hall --Debate Council, PBH Blood Drive Worker. Harvard Young Republican Club, Free Enterprise Society. William Holden of Thayer Hall--Freshman 150 lb. crew, Freshman track. Charles Nelson, Holworthy Hall--Freshman football, PBH social work at Cambridge Community Center, Freshman track, Natl. Scholarship holder. John G. Morey of Mower Hall--1952 Smoker Committee, Debate Council. Richard T. Button of Masachusetts Hall. Harvard Varsity Club, Competitive skating. Harvey Robinson of Hollis Hall--Union Committee, Chairman, Union Dance Committee, "D.P. Special...
Life Span. The first large group of U.S. visitors ever to come to Puerto Rico were the 3,415 troops commanded by Major General Nelson A. Miles, who splashed ashore on the beaches at Guanica to end the rule of Spain in 1898. By the peace treaty, Puerto Rico became a U.S. possession. Puerto Ricans have U.S. citizenship; their Resident Commissioner in Washington has a voice in Congress, but no vote. Congress has the right to repeal any act of the Puerto Rican legislature. The right has never been used, but its continued existence irks Puerto Ricans...
...white cameo figures of Peleus and Thetis. According to common, if unproved, legend, it was supposed to have come from the sarcophagus of the 3rd Century Roman Emperor Alexander Severus and to have once contained his ashes. Sir William Hamilton, otherwise known to history as the husband of Horatio Nelson's mistress, Emma, had brought it to England in 1770. Josiah Wedgwood had copied it, the Duchess of Portland had bought it (whence its present name), and her son had handed it over to the museum. That day in 1845, it lay in 300 little pieces, deliberately smashed...