Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sixty-seven years ago the congregation of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, saw Pastor Henry Ward Beecher* mount the pulpit, accompanied by a trembling nine-year-old Negress. Then, while many a woman became hysterical, while many a man shed tears, famed Abolitionist Beecher turned his pulpit into a slave-pen, his sermon into an auctioneer's harangue, asked his hearers to bid $900 for this fine piece of colored flesh- Sally Maria Diggs, commonly known as "Pinky." Last week the congregation of Plymouth Church saw its present pastor share his pulpit with a Negress. They heard him recall that...
...Alone in seven thousand dollars worth of machinery and the upper spaces of the Atlantic heavens a man is pushing his way from New York to Paris on a non-stop flight. Captain Charles A. Lindbergh in his plane. The Spirit of St. Louis, keeps alive and energetic an ancient tradition, the tradition which sent men into peaks in Darien and sends men up the frigid sides of Mt. Everest...
This number exceeds that enrolling in any other American university in 1927 Besides these, three of the 20 honor men will come to Columbia, two each to Princeton, Pennsylvania, and John Hopkins, and the remaining seven will go to seven different American educational institutions. Three women students have this year been awarded fellowships and two will go to Yale and one to Clark University...
...Rockefeller Foundation has promised seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars when the Fund reaches the two million, two hundred thousand mark. Mr. John D. Rockefeller Jr., impatient to sign that check, has promised another for one hundred thousand if the required goal is reached by July 1 of this year. The only thing lacking in such a setting is a thermometer of the Liberty Loan variety in front of Langdell...
...expansion is marked by the resignation from the Corporation of Dr. Henry Pickering Walcott. As a friend of the late Charles William Eliot and in his various official capacities to the University Dr. Walcott has witnessed the development of the institution from one of centralized to national significance. Thirty seven years of service have placed him in a position where he may now survey the results of the efforts expended by him and his associates. And thirty seven years have given him the privilege of retirement...