Word: ripley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...DeWulf on leave of absence for the whole year; Professors W. C. Abbort, R. L. Hawkins '03, W. E. Hocking '01, and W. J. Osterhout for the first half year; and Professors C. H. Grandgent '83, W. B. Munro '99, E. C. Moore '03, W. Z. Ripley, and K. G. T. Webster '93 for the second half year...
Died. Angus Patrick Bowes-Lyon, 24, first cousin of the Duchess of York, suicide, supposedly because of the breaking of his engagement to Miss Freda Parsons, at Ripley, Surrey, England...
...Loree, president of the Delaware and Hudson, was the most vigorous assailant of the Commission's plan. He attacked not only the specific suggestions put forward by Professor William Z. Ripley of Harvard for the Commission, but the general idea which it embodied. He characterized the proposal as " threatening and strange," " amounting to duress," " violently disturbing," impairing to " public welfare," " a pure abstraction of mathematics," " an insidious blow at the railway industry." As for combining strong and weak roads, he declared: " A mixture of good eggs and bad eggs always produces a bad omelette...
...hour, Commissioner Hall rose and asked that Mr. Loree confine himself to the subject and make constructive suggestions. Thereafter Mr. Loree objected that the proposed plan gave too much power to the New York Central and offered several alternatives. When his testimony was concluded Commissioner Hall asked Professor Ripley whether he cared to question Mr. Loree. " No," replied the originator of the plan, " I do not care to ask Mr. Loree any questions." Two chief difficulties were brought out at the hearing. One is the disposal of the New England roads, which, as a whole, are in poor condition. There...
Sabbatical leave of absence has been granted to Professor H. W. Foote for the year 1923-24 and to Professors C. H. Grandgent and W. Z. Ripley for the second half of the same year