Word: philanthropist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Over the tomb of James Edward Oglethorpe, British general and philanthropist, died 1785, runs no such ultimate appeal. Therefore there was nothing to dissuade Dr. Thornwell Jacobs, founder and President of Oglethorpe University (Atlanta, Ga.), from seizing last week the fruits of a search to which he has devoted two years of his time...
...week was the report that the enigmatical, cosmopolitan multimillionaire, Sir Basil Zaharoff, had given 50,000,000 lire ($2,160,000) to the Greek Government for the payment of the indemnity asked for by Italy in her ultimatum. (TiME, Sept. 10.) Sir Basil, "citizen of the world," noted philanthropist, famed international financier, notorious "mystery man," born in Egypt, reputed subject of Greece and Great Britain, citizen of France, denied that he had given money to Greece. Inquired The Wall Street Journal: New York World cable says you deposited two and a half million dollars to guarantee Italian reparations...
...York lawyer and authority on constitutional law; Louis D. Brandeis, Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court; Rufus Daniel Isaacs, Viscount Erleigh, first Earl of Reading, Viceroy and Governor General of India, ' holding the highest position, next to King George, in the British Empire'; Nathan Straus, New York philanthropist; Georg Brandes, Danish literary critic, said to be the world's greatest, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Thomas Paine Association, the Royal Society of Literature, the Garrick Club; Chaim N. Bialik, Russian, the great Hebrew poet; Stephen S. Wise, Manhattan rabbi; Henri Louis Bergson...
...Labratory at Woods Hole, Mass., celebrated the 50th anniversary of its foundation by Jean Louis Rudolphe Agassiz, famed Swiss-American naturalist (1807-1873), who became Professor of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. The first laboratory was on Penikese Island in Buzzards Bay, which was given for the purpose by the philanthropist, John Anderson, with an endowment of $50,000. Later it re- moved to the village of Woods Hole on the mainland. This was the first biological institution established on the edge of the sea for studying marine flora and fauna. But many have followed its lead, notably that of Prof...
...equal Amherst '95. The obvious comparison is Princeton '79, whose membership includes Woodrow Wilson, Mahlon Pitney (former Justice of the United States Supreme Court), Cyrus H. McCormick (head of the International Harvester Co.), Robert Bridges (editor of Scribner's Magazine), Cleveland H. Dodge (major capitalist and philanthropist...