Word: palmers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Died. Palmer Hutchinson, 28, correspondent of the North American Newspaper Alliance, while "covering" the U. S. Aero Expedition; hit by an airplane propeller at Fairbanks, Alaska. (See THE PRESS...
...American universities. Since the founding of the College in 1636, this leadership has been bound up inseparably with a tradition rich in the names of great teachers and illustrious graduates. From Dunster and Mather descends an unbroken line of famous professors down to Peirce, Longfellow, Gray, Norton, Shaler, Agassiz, Palmer, James, and Briggs. Graduates like Jonathan Trumbull, John Quincy Adams, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Joseph H. Choate, Phillips Brooks, Theodore Roosevelt, and others, have carried throughout the civilized world Harvard thought and Harvard ideals. In the community, in the State, and in the country, for nearly three hundred years Harvard...
...when the Philosophy Department wanted Professor Josiah Royce to come to Harvard, there was no money available to bring him. So Professor Palmer, who was Chairman of the Department, took a sabbatical year and generously gave half of his own salary to pay that of Royce. In the following year William James took his sabbatical under the same conditions. And that was how the great Professor Royce was brought to Cambridge. The splendid teacher, the fine scholar, the able professor like Josiah Royce is hard to find. But Harvard must always seek to find him, and be prepared financially...
...were already well acquainted with Miss Patterson as an actress, had often seen the accompanying photograph of her as Nun Megildis in The Miracle. They were further supplied with a portrait of her in her opera cloak and pearls; with a view of the red lacquer ballroom of the Palmer House, crowded with fashionable guests, where she made her début; with a "closeup" of a boudoir table which might have been hers, displaying more pearls and two jars of Pond's cold and vanishing creams...
With scientific aim, the modern world is slowly strangling its novelesque material. Lacking the palmer and the pilgrim, Sir Walter Scott's work might fall a trifle flat. Without magic and magicians, the "Arabian Nights" would never have been written. Sans tom-tom and medicine man, the ferocious savage of America has about him less awful mystery...