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...nominal president. Last week Miss Mary G. Ewing of Brookline. Mass.* succeeded onetime Governor Ralph O. Brewster of Maine. Born 50-odd years ago in Quincy, Ill., grey-haired Miss Ewing is the second woman to be elected. She was taught Christian Science by her mother who became a pupil of Mrs. Eddy after the healing of her husband Judge William G. Ewing. Miss Ewing studied at "Massachusetts Metaphysical College" which ambitious Mrs. Eddy envisioned as a full-fledged place of learning but which now consists of a fortnight's course for 30 people at the Mother Church. Member...
...political science and was graduated in 1894 summa cum laude. He traveled in Europe, taught economics at the Imperial University at Tokyo, became in 1908 an original faculty member of the Harvard Business School. His extemporaneous lectures on finance and banking were so good that at least one pupil reproduced them and sold them at a profit to outside businessmen. Abnormally nearsighted, Professor Sprague could not identify even his front-row students through his thick glasses. In April 1930, the Bank of England lured him from Harvard. When Britain went off gold, Expert Sprague helped run its Equalization Fund whereby...
...Edouard Herriot, by now a rising power in the Radical-Socialist Party, remembered his prize pupil and got him a seat in the Chamber of Deputies. He was a member of Herriot's junket to Soviet Russia, joined the Herriot Cabinet in 1924 as Minister of Colonies. Never catching the national spotlight, his influence in the party and in France grew & grew. He served in the 1926 Herriot Cabinet, fought ultra-Nationalist Raymond Poincare persistently, was elected president of the Radical-Socialist Party in 1927, became leader of a party faction separate from his old teacher last winter...
Another student remarked. The thing that impresses me most strongly about Professor Conant is his remarkable ability in handling people. After he had known a pupil for only a week or two he had decided just how that student should be treated. He never made an error in this respect as far as I know...
...Friedrichshafen with clocklike regularity and claims to have carried 100,000 passengers without a single casualty in ten years piloting. The U. S. Navy hired him in 1922 to help supervise construction of the Shenandoah and train its first crew. Lieut.-Commander Herbert V. Wiley, Akron survivor, was his pupil. When the Shenandoah broke from her moorings in a 70-mi, gale with 21 men aboard, it was Capt. Heinen who brought her back, damaged but whole. His contract expired in 1924 and he left Navy employ following bitter controversies with high officers over airship practice. Three years...