Word: princeton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would benefit. The Ohio law requires that Ohio delegates to the national party conventions shall go instructed. A muddle might ensue should Ohio have to decide between its two sons, Speaker Nicholas Longworth (Wet) and Senator Frank B. Willis (Dry). *Last week, Dr Henry van Dyke, retired patriarch of Princeton University's department of English, and a twinkle-eyed Democrat, wrote to the New York Times: ". . . But why put it in the negative ? The positive is shorter, clearer and better. 'May I not ?' is less handsome than 'May I ?' 'I do not think...
Professor Edward Capps of Princeton and the school at Athens had announced a few days before that Arthur Woods, onetime (1914-18) police commissioner of New York City, had already furnished checks approximating $250,000 to begin the project, largest and most costly archeological diggings ever undertaken. Two and a quarter millions more would come as work progressed. Professor Capps had planned to get the money from U. S. universities and patrons of Archeology. Solicitation, he knew, would be difficult. U. S. schools have their domestic money needs. Mr. Woods' checks physicked the trouble...
...Princeton's Tiger slunk from its Jersey jungle up to the green field which is Gilmour Dobie's classroom at Cornell. Surly the Tiger sniffed the students; snarled, and slunk three times across the goal line. Facing the beast for the first time in 20 years, Cornell was shattered...
...Lincoln University, founded at Lincoln University, Pa., in 1854, for Negro education, went Dr. William Hallock Johnson, Princeton graduate...
John Davison Rockefeller III is a junior at Princeton. The Philadelphian Society, religious group there, made him chairman in charge of teaching English to foreigners...