Word: senior
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...winning his prize, he was the recipient of a telegram from the New York World, asking him to give his "conception of a Christian gentleman's code of conduct." This request arrived "just as I [Behr] was bidding my fraternity brothers of Phi Sigma Delta farewell at our senior banquet," a circumstance which may have explained some of the garrulity with which the youth fulfilled it. Extracts: "If I have the personal qualities requisite for the Kenneth Sterling Day award-if I have a sound moral character-it is because my parents and my religion have taught...
Eliot's Grandson. Thomas Hopkinson, senior at Harvard, grandson of the late beloved President Charles W. Eliot of Harvard, was awarded the Lionel d'Jersey Harvard studentship at Cambridge University, England...
Morrow's Daughter. For the most original piece of creative writing, and also for the best essay on "Women of Dr. Johnson's Time," Anne Morrow of the senior class won two prizes at Smith College. She is the daughter of a man who was a partner in J. P. Morgan & Co., is now U. S. Ambassador to Mexico, and in whose person both business and politics are flattered since he is constantly spoken of as prospective president of some great university: Dwight Whitney Morrow. His elder daughter, Elizabeth, no literary laggard, teaches in the Englewood...
...Litchfield, Conn., onetime wife of U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon, daughter of an owner of the Guinness Brewing Co. of Dublin; for failure to provide. Mr. Lee's petition charging mental cruelty had been denied. In 1910 Mr. Mellon, 26 years her senior, sued for divorce. Children of the Mellon-McMullen marriage are Ailsa, who married David K. E. Bruce in 1927 and Paul, popular Yale student...
...mentioned the new six, to be called the "De Soto," to be made by a separate corporation; and to be sold for $900. He referred to Dodge Bros., which Mr. Dillon controls; to its "Standard Six" at $875, its "Victory Six" at $1,045 and its "Senior Six" at a minimum of $1,495; to Graham Bros, trucks, which Dodge Bros, also make. He, motor maker, asked questions of Clarence Dillon, investment banker, about Dodge Bros, factories, dealers and finances. Mr. Dillon asked about Chrysler Corp.'s factories, dealers and finances...