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...chief offensive threat on the Manger squad this year promises to be Paxson Gifford, a Morcersburg product who broke up last year's Cornell game with a beautiful open-field run down to the Big Red 15-yard line. Faster even than Jack Welsh, who bothered the Harlowmen so much last year with his sudden bursts of steam, Gifford takes Frank...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOTBALL-- | 10/4/1941 | See Source »

...Washington press corps, in response to a summons promising them "the greatest human interest story" in the six years of the Roosevelt Presidency. There they found Franklin Roosevelt, beaming but serious. He had just been host to an impressive array of luncheon guests: Historians Charles A. Beard, Frederic L. Paxson, William E. Dodd. Samuel Eliot Morison; President Frank Porter Graham of the University of North Carolina and President Edmund Ezra Day of Cornell; Economist Stuart Chase and Poet Archibald MacLeish; Mr. Roosevelt's biographer, Ernest Lindley, and his literary handy man, Samuel I. Rosenman; Frank C. Walker, former director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Into History | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...occurred an important shift in the West. Dr. John Donald Hicks, distinguished dean of the college of arts & sciences of the University of Nebraska, resigned to become professor of American history at Dr. Glenn Frank's University of Wisconsin. He will replace Pulitzer-prizewinning (1924) Professor Frederic Logan Paxson, who next session will be teaching history at the University of California. Chief reason for both changes is financial: Wisconsin pays better than Nebraska, California better than Wisconsin. In Dr. Hicks's case there is another important reason. Said he: "I would rather be known as a historian than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Western Shift | 5/30/1932 | See Source »

...best book on U. S. history ($2,000) ? to Frederic L. Paxson, for A History of the American Frontier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost Childhood | 5/4/1925 | See Source »

...permanent committee of management was appointed after the Times' announcement: Dr. Jameson, Chairman ; Dr. John H. Finley, Editor of the Times; Prof. Frederic L. Paxson, of the University of Wisconsin; Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger, daughter of Adolf S. Ochs, member of the Board of Directors of the Times; Carl Van Doren, literary editor of the Century; the Hon. Charles Warren, lawyer. These six were to choose a seventh to serve as Editor-in-Chief. The Library of Congress will be the scene of labor. Vol. 1 is expected within four years, the rest at three volumes per annum thereafter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: 20,000 Lives | 12/22/1924 | See Source »

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