Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During this period six college presidents were touched with the magic wand. Except for A. Lawrence Lowell the recognition was not due to any starting contribution to education, but rather to a strange habit of reciprocity among American colleges. In the field of government Samuel Seabury rendered a great public service, but degrees were similarly bestowed upon A1 smith, Orden Mills, and Secretary Wallance. Even the casual reader of the Bible will admit that it much easier for a rich man to enter the Sever Quadrangle than the gates of heaven, and it is hard to see how being President...
...poem will be read by Daniel Sargeant '13. Instructor in History and Literature, at the meeting over which Samuel Williston, Dane Professor of Law, and President of Phi Beta Kappa, will preside...
...Samuel D. Riddle's three-year-old race horse War Admiral, ridden by seasoned Jockey Charley Kurtsinger: the 47th Preakness Stakes, for a prize of $45,600; by a head, after a neck & neck drive against Jerome H. Louchheim's Pompoon, whom he outran by almost two lengths in last fortnight's Kentucky Derby; at Pimlico racetrack, Baltimore, Md. ¶ Marshall Eldredge, 36-year-old East Weymouth, Mass, mechanic: the tenth annual 130-mi. Albany to New York boat race, No. 1 event of the year for outboards; at 41.7 m.p.h.; in a Jacoby Flyaway Special...
Most famed example of what used to be called Lorimer Luck† occurred at the death of Warren Gamaliel Harding in San Francisco in 1923. Mrs. Harding had just read to the ailing President an article about himself by the Post's Samuel G. Blythe when he turned quietly over and died. In 1931, brilliant Lillian Leitzel of the circus was killed by a fall from a trapeze. Next week the Post carried an article about their professional risks by her husband, Alfredo Codona. Title: "Taking the Fall." In 1932, an issue...
...Freshman golf team will meet Yale tomorrow at New Haven, with William A. Cordingley Jr., John E. Crane, Samuel M. Fahr, Robert B. Graves, Matthew J. Whittall 2d and either John F. Kennedy or William M. Maish representing the Yardlings...