Word: sagely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Resigned. John Mark Glenn, 72, general director of the Russell Sage Foundation since it was established in 1907; succeeded by Shelby Millard Harrison, vice director; because...
...travellers.... charitably speaking, Dr. Huey is a traveller, but a rank amateur compared to the Vagabond.... had a violent disagreement when the Vagabond suggested they should drop off on the way to New Hampshire and visit the sesquicentennial (150 years, in translation) anniversary at Exeter. The Oriental Sage objected to the intrusion of business, emphasizing the fact that he had laid aside his plans to foretell the final scores of the Harvard-Princeton polo match and the Harvard-Holy Cross baseball duel. And here, the Vagabond must confess to a sad outcropping of a little hasty irritation. He wanted...
...between the preparatory school and that college has been accompanied by a similar change in the attitude of the Faculty towards its students. When contacts have been made they have generally emanated from sacrifice at the common altar of scholarship, but rarely at that of friendship, for friendship's sage alone. It is encouraging therefore when opportunities arise in which mutual respect can be red in other fields more common to the student body as a whole. Such, however, did happen last week when the "Faculty Rowdies," a sobriquet devised by the ingenious student, met the "Campus Gentlemen," again ironically...
Died. Robert Weeks deForest, 83, Manhattan art patron, charitarian, president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Welfare Council of New York and the National Housing Association, vice president of the American Red Cross, official in many another philanthropic organization; of heart disease after a long illness; in Manhattan. A Yale graduate, he practiced law in Manhattan, married Emily P. Johnston, daughter of President John Taylor Johnston of Central Railroad of New Jersey, became general counsel, director and vice president of the corporation. With his wife he collected Early American furniture for many a year, presented...
...form the partnership of J. & W. Seligman & Co., the firm which his father and seven uncles founded 68 years ago. More serious minded than his fun-fond cousin is Henry Seligman, 74, whose son, Walter, 36, represents the third generation of the partnership. The principal partner, the Sage of Seligman, is Frederick Strauss, 70, a deeply cultured, aristocratic financier. He loves poetry and quotes it easily. Under the Strauss prestige, Seligman & Co. has gone about its business quietly, politely, and is respected by Wall Street. Yet there is nothing antiquated about its methods. Early in 1929 Seligman & Co. reached...