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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world is used to heroes illustriously sired. "A chip of the old block," folk say of Pitt, the son of Pitt, of Dumas fils, of the young Adams, the young Hammond, the young Rockefeller. "Just like his father, only more so," said the ancients when Philip's son, Alexander, became tearful with success. But who was Cleopatra's daughter? What heroine did Dido mother? Joan of Arc, Queen Bess, Florence Nightingale, Jane Addams are all ineligible by hypothesis; and it is not recorded that Sarah Bernhardt had a daughter. But what of Portia and other married celebrities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Distaff Succession | 4/13/1925 | See Source »

...FARINGTON DIARY, VOL. III*-Joseph Farington. Edited by James Greig - Doran ($7.50). If Joseph Farington was a mediocre artist, he at least excelled as a diarist. He seems to have known everybody worth knowing and his books teem with piquant anecdotes about Nelson, George III and IV, Pitt, Napoleon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New Books | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

Besides the magazines mentioned above, the convention includes representatives from the following publications: The Brown University Brown Jug, the Cornell Widow, the Pennsylvania Punch Bowl, the Princeton Tiger; the Hamilton College Royal Gaboon, the Pitt Panther, the Lehigh Burr, the Columbia Jester, the Rutgers Chanticleer, the Johns Hopkins Black and Blue Jay, the Carnegie Tech Puppet, the New York University Medley, the Boston University Bean Pot, the Williams Purple Cow, the Middlebury Baboon, the Amherst Lord Jeff, the Wesleyan Wasp, the Lafayette Liar and the Stevens Stone Mill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE COMICS OF EAST VISIT LAMPOON | 12/13/1924 | See Source »

Pittsburgh would take no nonsense about field goals from Penn State. While the latter potted away ineffectually, Pitt laid open large apertures in the Penn State line, roared through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Dec. 8, 1924 | 12/8/1924 | See Source »

...Klauder of Philadelphia and Engineers Stone & Webster of Boston estimated that ten million dollars will be required to send up the Cathedral of Learning. That the millions would be promptly forthcoming and that the work would begin next year on schedule seemed likely when one scanned the list of Pitt's trustees and the personnel of the citizens' committee. Names : Andrew W. Mellon, U. S. Secretary of the Treasury ; Homer D. Williams (steel) ; John H. Nicholson (tubing) ; Robert B. Mellon (banks) ; Edward V. Babcock (lumber) ; George H. Clapp (aluminum) ; Howard Heinz (pickles) ; Marcus Aaron (china) ; Charles D. Armstrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Symbol | 11/17/1924 | See Source »

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