Word: robert
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...last meeting of the year of the University Geological Club, the following officers were elected for 1919-20: President, Preston Everett James '20, of Brookline: vice-president, Atherton Clark '22, of Baltimore, Md.; secretary, Eliot Channing French '20, of Canton; treasurer, James Goodwin Woodworth '22, of Weston; graduate representative, Robert Fulton Webb, Occ., of Tampa, Fla. Professor Woodworth of the Geology Department was the principal speaker at the last meeting...
...Robert Ephraim Eckstein '20, of West Norwood, N. J., has been elected secretary of the University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa for the coming year. The election was announced at the annual banquet held last week...
...death of Col. Robert Bacon, of the Class of 1880, Harvard loses one of the finest and most truly representative of her sons. From the beginning he was a man of broad and varied interests, who undertook nothing in which he was not conspicuously successful...
...later life Robert Bacon was a banker, first in Boston and, since 1894, with the Morgan firm in New York. Appointed by Elihu Root as his Associate Secretary of State, he later became head of the State Department under President Roosevelt. As Ambassador to France he served for three years with great distinction. An advocate of preparedness, he strongly supported General Wood's Plattsburg Officers' Training Camp System. Attending the first Plattsburg business man's camp, he became a major in May, 1919, and returned from France after the armistice as a Colonel on General Pershing's Staff. During...
...will be difficult at the University to become accustomed to the loss of Robert Bacon. We mourn him not only as a former editor and a former Harvard man, but also as a great American who has passed from among...