Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smallish town, such as Des Moines was in 1881, of which the essential function is to serve a surrounding population of farmers, it is hard to discover what types of higher education are really in demand. Drake, organized as a nonsectarian, co-educational plant, began by borrowing the six-year-old Law School of Simpson College at nearby Indianola, Iowa, and absorbing a five-year-old Iowa Medical College. These, plus a Liberal Arts School, made Drake a "university." In 1882 a department of pharmacy was added. In 1887, the Iowa College of Physicians was affiliated and the next year...
...White House office one morning last week sat President Coolidge, his finger hovering over a button. The clock reached 9:30. The President pushed the button. Straightway started, in distant Toledo, the presses of the new Toledo Blade newspaper plant...
Three members of the University Faculty have received promotion to take effect September 1. James Angel! McLaughlin, Assistant Professor of Law, has been elevated to a full professorship in the Law School, and Irving Widmer Bailey '07, Associate Professor of Forestry, has been named Assistant Professor of Plant Anatomy at the Bussey Institution. E. C. Kemble G '14 has been promoted from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Physics...
...Lowell Road, Concord, Mass., where he honeymooned 30 years ago with Mrs. Macdonald, who died when Ishbel was 8. At last, Mr. Macdonald, who had concealed his destination from reporters as long as possible, was obliged to ask the way. With alacrity they told him, rushed ahead to plant the spiked tripods of their cinema cameras on the old Colonial porch of No. 8 Lowell Road...
...seen the John-and-Lionel-Barrymore production of 1919. But never were comparisons more idle. The occasion was the opening of the new home of the Cleveland Play House, an outstanding "little" theatre now made unique in the U. S. through its possession of a self-contained theatre plant with two stages-regular and studio size. The aims and achievements of the "little" or independent theatre movement, of which the Play House is a product and an exponent, bear about the same relation to commercial drama as English cricket bears to big-league baseball...