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...existed for a long time. Yet few of the men who built the first automobiles are still alive; Maxwell, Haynes, the Dodge Brothers-these were among the most important and all of them are dead. Last week Death, in his quick chariot, overtook one more. This was James Ward Packard, famed maker of Packard cars...
James Ward Packard was 30 years old when he began to make automobiles. Before that he had experimented with electrical devices and organized two companies to manufacture them. In 1893, having studied the motor plans of Daimler and Benz and the body-building methods of Levasseur, he had drawn the plans for the first Packard; the financial depression of the next few years prevented him from manufacturing cars for the several years afterward. It was not until 1899 that the first Packard rolled out upon the roads, a high, sloping car, followed by children and stared at by scornful farmers...
...result of the second series of trials held in Sanders Theatre yesterday afternoon ten men have been selected to compete in the final competition for the Lee Wade and Boylston speaking prizes, it was announced last night by Assistant Professor F. C. Packard...
...special arrangement with the English department, Assistant Professor F. C. Packard Jr. '20 has been secured to direct "Hassan," the spring production of the Harvard Dramatic Club...
...stage in New York City he did acting and stage managing with the Production Group of Kenneth MacGowan '11, Robert Edmund Jones '11, and Eugene O'Neill '15, in a number of plays including O'Neill's "The Great God Brown." Before going on the stage Professor Packard was an assistant in public speaking under I. L. Winter of Harvard. Last year he was director of dramatics at Dartmouth College, and during the summer of 1927 he was in Europe as one of the three American representatives at the conference of dramatic critics of Salzburg, Austria, observing the productions...