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...town of Rhenish Bavaria one Sara bore to one Lazarus Straus three sons. The first-born he named Isidore; the second he named Nathan; the youngest, Oscar Solomen. Isidore, after distinguished years as merchant, banker and Congressman, lost his life, a hero, in the Titanic disaster. Nathan is now 77 and Oscar Solomon is 75, and for more than a generation their portraits have appeared in the public prints of the U. S. as frequently as that of Santa Claus. Nathan is the passionate philanthropist. No sooner does he make a nickel (Abraham & Straus, R. H. Macy, emporia) than...
Countee Cullen, 1G, has been awarded the Witter Bynner Undergraduate Poetry Prize for 1925. The judges of the Poetry Society of America's Undergraduate Contest, Sara Teasdale, George Sterling, and the donor, unanimously decided that Cullen, who is a Negro, should receive the $150 prize. For two years Cullen had held second place. When he wrote the poems that brought him the award, he was an undergraduate at New York University...
...known yesterday at University Hall, officially--to be named Lionel Hall and Mower Hall. Lionell Hall, the dormitory adjoining Harvard Hall, is to be named for Lionel de Jersey Harvard '15, and Mower Hall receives its name from Thomas G. Mower, in memory of the father of the donor, Sara E. Mower...
...offer of the dormitories is to be named Mower Hall in accord with the wishes of Sara E. Mower. She bequeathed to the University a fund with the request that it be used for a building in the memory of her father. Thomas G. Mower of the class of 1810. The fund is not fully sufficient for the cost but the balanced as well as the entire cost of Lionel Hall are to be paid for by gifts made for this special purpose...
...Huntington, Chairman, Miss Helen Swann; C. H. Leland, Miss Julia Winslow; R. F. Vance, Miss Helen Norris: J. L. Riker, Miss Caroline Powle; D. C. Gates Miss Sara Gates; W. S. Martin; Miss Evelyn Eliot...