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Lehigh University was founded 62 years ago by a man named Asa Packer. In 1884 it graduated a young man named James Ward Packard who took his mechanical engineering knowledge back to Warren, Ohio, his birthplace, and put it to work. Last week Lehigh University acknowledged the receipt, from James Ward Packard, of the largest single bequest since its initial gifts and endowment (two millions and 60 acres of land in South Bethlehem, Pa.) from Asa Packer - a million-dollar engineering laboratory that was to be the world's "finest." The similarity of the names Packer and Packard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Finest | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

...regular prices, and an unlimited number for the Dartmouth and other games. All applications for the Yale game on February 19 must be in on February 9, in order to be considered in the first allotment, which will be by classes. Late applications will be considered in order of receipt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CUT HOCKEY PRICES FOR OWNERS OF H. A. A. BOOKS | 1/6/1927 | See Source »

Applications, for tickets for the Dartmouth games on January 12 and February 23 are not limited, and are filled by lot ten days before the games. Tickets remaining after the allotment will be sold in order of receipt of applications...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CUT HOCKEY PRICES FOR OWNERS OF H. A. A. BOOKS | 1/6/1927 | See Source »

...have to show a tax receipt?" asked Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon, wary billionaire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Elections | 11/15/1926 | See Source »

...predicted, meet with the success that had been predicted. There was no scrambling for the balls, players were not besieged for autographs. Mademoiselle Lenglen and Mr. Richards missed a trick by not sending tennis balls to the sick boy whose convalescence has recently been so materially aided by the receipt of a baseball from Mr. Ruth and a football from Mr. Grange. The Madison Square Garden audience showed no World Series fever and Mademoiselle Lenglen showed no temperament. Which in itself is enough to prove that there is no future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TAINTED TENNIS | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

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