Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scholastic award known as the Edward Whitaker Prize Scholarship has been established at Harvard, according to an announcement by University authorities. This scholarship was made possible by a gift of Mrs. Samuel Davis. Later a second Edward Whitaker award will be established...
...list of famed Nebraskans as given in your issue of Nov. 18 contains some rather conspicuous omissions. Among them are: Col. W. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill), Indian scout and showman; J. Sterling Morton, first Secretary of Agriculture and fatherof Arbor Day*; Samuel R. McKelvie, member of the Federal Farm Board, publisher, and ex-governor; Col. Charles A. Lindbergh (learned to fly at Lincoln); Ace Hudkins, pugilist; Dean Roscoe Pound of the Harvard Law School. HAROLD L. PETERSON...
...indoor singles championship in the junior lawn tennis tournament on the courts of the Seventh Regiment Armory, New York City, starting the day after Christmas and continuing to New Year's Day. Murphy has been coached by William T. Tilden 2nd. In the doubles he intends to pair with Samuel Hayes Jr., with whom he also won the title a year...
...world at large, the headmasters of three famed New England private schools are Dr. Samuel Smith Drury (St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H.), the Rev. Endicott Peabody (Groton School, Groton, Mass.) and Dr. William Greenough Thayer of St. Mark's School (Southborough, Mass.). To thousands of affectionate graduates, hundreds of respectful schoolboys, they are and always will be known respectively as "The Drip," "Pee-bo," and "Twill." St. Marksmen were saddened to learn last week that "Twill" had resigned. He will leave his post before the autumn. Headmaster "Twill" has earned his rest...
...reports of miraculous cures increased in number if not in clarity. One Louis Hanover begged more than $100 from the sympathetic crowd, flung down his crutches on the grave, cried out that he was cured, ran away. The policemen caught him, discovered his alias was Samuel Cohen. He was sent to the work farm for four months. Anna Bellard of Adams, Mass., made out an affidavit at the cemetery office saying she had walked and talked for the first time in five years. Twelve-year-old Rita Averman of Manhattan, blind since infancy, thought she saw light and moving shapes...