Word: scudder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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White entered the field of investment counseling with a firm in Boston after completing his studies at the University. Presently, he is senior partner with Scudder, Stevens & Clark, a director of the Wall Street Journal, the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and a trustee of Norwich University in Vermont...
...Scribner's Monthly for July, 1876, Horace E. Scudder wrote this description of the University: "That repression or even disdain of enthusiasm, that emulation of high-bred cynicism and arrogant coolness, which in a young man do not be-token the healthiest, strongest character, is prevalent. The divine fervor of enthusiasm is openly, or by implication, voted a vulgar thing...
Three months later Theodore Roosevelt entered Harvard as a freshman, and proceeded to spend four years violating the Scudder stereotype. On a supposedly cynical and disdainful campus, he quickly became known for his energy and enthusiasm...
...SCUDDER GRIPPING...
...Scudder's hospital has 550 beds and 60 baby cots. Last year it treated 10,680 inpatients and 45,616 outpatients. In addition, its four roadside bus clinics took care of 33,817 villagers. Widely recognized as one of the best in India, Vellore Hospital has topflight specialists from four continents and dispenses the latest wonder drugs. But to many a patient, lying scared as she awaits the anesthetist's mask, the most comforting feature is the gentle but firmly reassuring handclasp of Dr. Scudder, the woman who decided to follow family tradition...