Word: northwestern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...high honor was recently paid Dean Roscoe Pound, Dean of the Law School, when a large portrait of him was hung by the Northwestern University School of Law in the faculty room of the law library at Evanston. In this room are a number of other oil portraits of former Northwestern law professors...
...which its profits depend. Those profits have not been large in recent years. Sometimes they have been displaced by losses, which Jonathan Ogden Armour, present head of the Armour family, has paid from his own funds. This is so, although the company owns six great grain elevators, including the Northwestern in Chicago (largest in the world), and leases ten others. In these elevators it can store 28,800,000 bushels of grain. In effect it is to the U. S. what Joseph was to Egypt before the Israelite exodus...
President Walter Dill Scott of Northwestern University: "When Mr. & Mrs. William A. Wieboldt of Chicago gave $500,000 for a hall of commerce, the contracts for this and another structure on Northwestern's new 'downtown' campus [in Chicago instead of out in Evanston, Ill.] were given to R. C. Wieboldt & Co. Last week, Raymond C. Wieboldt, son of the donors, returned to the university $153,872 which he had not needed in fulfilling his specifications. Said I: 'The money so honestly and thoughtfully returned will enable the university to complete the campus structures without soliciting...
...very pretty, your account of the eastern intercollegiate glee club contest in TIME this week [March 28], but why not tell also about the far larger and more important National intercollegiate glee club contest, which I heard here in Chicago? Northwestern, Illinois, Iowa, Purdue, Michigan, Wabash, Knox, Notre Dame, Grinnell and Milliken sang, and sang beautifully. Why the winners of the eastern contest were not there to pit themselves against our melodious Northwestern, I cannot guess. Northwestern won, with Illinois and Iowa tied for second and Purdue third. TIME-would have had something to say if it had only heard...
...Since pure research is now being pursued as vigorously by industry as in academe, it was not surprising to find more industrial employes than college professors on the committee, which included: Dean Gerald L. Wendt of physics and chemistry at Penn State; Professor Frank C. Whitmore, chemistry head at Northwestern University; Director Willis R. Whitney of chemical research at the General Electric Co.'s Schenectady laboratories; Chemical-Director C. M. A. Stine of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.; Research Director C. E. K. Mees of the Eastman Kodak Co.; Frederick W. Willard of the Western Electric...