Word: northwestern
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Faculty have awarded the Ames Prize to Professor John Henry Wigmore '83, LL.B. '87, who has been for many years a professor in the Northwestern University Law School, and is now dean of that institution. The prize was established in 1898 by Julian W. Mack LL.B. '87, and consists of a sum of $400 and a medal. The prize is awarded every four years for the most meritorious law book or legal essay written in the English language and published not less than one nor more than five years before the award; but if no essay merits the prize...
Illinois, 17; Northwestern...
Dean Briggs will leave Cambridge next Tuesday on a week's trip to the West. He will visit the University of Kansas, acting as the Harvard delegate at the inauguration of Dr. Frank Strong as Chancellor. From there he will go to Northwestern University to attend the inauguration of President Edmund J. James. This last visit will cover three days, October 19, 20 and 21, and the Dean will then return to Cambridge...
Professor Shaler, the chairman of the conference and the first speaker, told of his experiences in Alaska, in the region of the Fjords. After spending some weeks of careful geological study in that country, Professor Shaler returned to the forest region of the northwestern portion of the United States and made investigations concerning the history of the forest movement after the glacial period. This work was really one of compilation, as Professor Shaler has been studying this region for about forty years...
Eighty-five men attended the conference, including representatives from several preparatory schools, as well as from Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Williams, Rutgers, Toronto, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Hamilton, Dakota, and Ontario universities. Every department of the University was represented. The conference closed on Sunday with an address in the morning by Mr. John R. Mott, and one in the afternoon by Professor Chen of Pekin University...