Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...adoption of the metric system is wide and notable. It includes among scientists Thomas A. Edison, Luther Burbank and Glenn H. Curtiss. It includes Leonard Wood and Admiral Sims. It includes Elihu Root, John Barton Payne, Newton D. Baker and William G. McAdoo. It included John Hays Hammond and Samuel Vauclain. It includes Arthur Brisbane and Dr. Frank Crane, and includes General Pershing, who saw the A. E. F. acquire the use of it in France and found it both convenient and not too hard to learn. Its proponents argue for it that no country that adopted the metric system...
...Samuel S. Drury is rector of the largest U. S. church school, St. Paul's (Episcopal), at Concord, N. H. His subject is "Religious Influence." He frankly "talks religion," insisting that religion is not "queer" or "forced" as a part of a boy's education. He believes that schools have made a god of morality and been afraid of theology. He believes that boys are natural mystics, that the second decade is in all directions a romance. "Some colleges," he says, "will not grant a degree unless the senior can swim 100 yards; the school might make one condition...
...school. Twenty-four charter pupils were enrolled. Today, in its third year, this school (South Kent) has 51 boys, 7 masters and a waiting list of 100 or more boys, who will be admitted as fast as expansion can be effected. The headmaster of South Kent is Samuel Slater Bartlett, a 26-year-old New Englander now four years out of Lafayette College. Keen, vigorous, a young man of many interests and opportunities, he determined to make the school his career. His fellow prefect, Richard M. Cuyler, graduated by Princeton in 1923 with a high record, made the same choice...
...Phillips-Exeter Academy (Exeter, N. H.) was founded in 1781 by John, brother of Samuel Phillips, upon seeing the success of the latter's school at Andover, Mass. Andover's first headmaster was Eliphalet Pearson, known as "Elephant," sung as Great Eliphalet (I can see him now), Big name, big frame, big voice and beetling brow...
Directors of the Pacific Oil Co. were Henry W. de Forest, E. P. Swenson, Charles H. Seger, Mortimer L. Schiff, James S. Alexander, Gordon M. Buck and Charles A. Peabody, all of Manhattan; Samuel Rea of Philadelphia and Paul Shoup 28 of San Francisco. It was incorporated in 1920 and now works extensive fields in California and in the Southwest...