Word: presidental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Proud too may President Madden be in the knowledge that among his alumni are: Walter Percy Chrysler (motors); Anthony H. G. Fokker (airplanes); Charles E. Hires (root beer); Roy Wilson Howard (newspapers); President Sewell Lee Avery of U. S. Gypsum Co.; President Ernst Richard Behrend of Hammermill Paper Co.; Treasurer...
In Cambridge, Mass., atop the solemn, Georgian bulk of Harvard Hall there is a cupola where, one morning long ago, early risers were astonished to behold a horse & buggy. In another Harvard Hall, banquet room of the Boston Harvard Club, there were assembled, one night last week, some 400 members...
When the alumni were well-fed and lightsome, they heard Yale's President, with Angellic jocosity, say: "One of our coaches, on the day that the Carnegie report was published [TIME, Nov. 4] told me that he would gladly exchange all Yale's purity for a good set...
He told the tale of a Harvard Freshman, who was asked in an examination: "Who founded St. Petersburg?" The Freshman answered, and President Angell thought perhaps rightly: "St. Peter." To the question, "What lands lie beyond the Jordan?" the Freshman replied, delphically: "It all depends upon which side of the...
President Lowell replied to President Angell with a gravity that almost became emotional. He told his visitor to hold high the Yale-Harvard brand. Said he: "I am a great admirer of Yale. . . . Together, Yale and Harvard are four times as strong as either one is alone. ... I am an...