Word: schooled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...factory hand pressing cattle horns into combs. The factory closed. The father died. Spindly-legged David Ignatius, aged 7, trudged over the hills around Worcester to gather wild berries and sell them. He picked enough, and did enough odd jobs, newspaper-selling, errand-running, to put himself through school. He was president of his class. From Holy Cross he was graduated in 1893, from the Boston University Law School four years later. At 24 he began to practise law at Fitchburg. At 27, as a "common people's" Democrat, he was sent by a hidebound Republican district in Worcester...
...Pavlowa saw talent and beauty of face and body. She spoke encouragingly, advised Mrs. Page to take Ruth to Chicago to study during the summer with the Pavlowa Ballet. There followed further study in Manhattan under Adolph Bolm while the necessary general education was attended to at a suitable school for girls. Then in 1918, while Dr. Page and a son were with the A. E. F. in France, Ruth met quite by accident Victor D'Andre, husband of Pavlowa, at a Manhattan Sunday-night concert. He suggested that she tour with the Pavlowa company in South America. Followed...
...Professor August Vollmer's sphygmanometer (lie detector) in the Social Science Building (TIME, May 27). In the Haskell Museum, housing the Oriental Institute's work, upon which much Chicago money is lavished, was exhibited the archaeological reseasch of Professor James Henry Breasted, whose red-bound ancient history many a school must study. Through its local Community Research Committee, the University makes its closest contact with the city. In the research committee's workshop were shown compilations of information of education, commerce, government,? labor, vice and the gangsterism for which Chicago is ill-famed, to which the University...
Three million dollars will be spent the erection of the new Law School building on Davenport Avenue. According to the description of the structures file with the city building inspector, the southerly side of the group will be used for school purposes, while the Northeast side of the section will be used for dormitories. There are to be a total of 26 rooms in the dormitories...
NameClass Position Age Wt. Ht. School Austen, E. '31 Back 19 175 5.10 Hill Bachman, W. B. '32 Back 20 180 5.10 Choate Barres, H. '32 End 20 162 5.11 Andover Beane, A. C. '31 Back 19 160 5.11 New Orleans Academy Betner, B. C., Jr. '32 Line 21 176 5.10 Hill Booth, A. J., Jr. '32 Back 21 155 5.6 Milford Conklin, J. H. W. '31 Back 20 165 5.8 Exeter Cruikshank, H. L. '31 Back 22 168 6. Taft Dunn, K. '31 Back 20 188 6.2 Kent Ellis, H. M. '30 Back 24 165 5.10 Exeter Ferris...