Word: shailer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard men these three stand out among the great teachers of the last half century. Only the older graduates remember Professor Hill, the associate of Charles Eliot Norton, Nathaniel Shailer and their contemporaries. Dean Briggs, who died only three years ago, was known to--and loved by--the undergraduates of the last sixty years. Even in retirement his ambling figure was familiar in the yard, and his bashful smile and warm heart won instantaneous response. To study composition in his English 5 was the ambition of nearly all undergraduates who looked forward to writing as a career, and many...
After reiterating what TIME reported, i. e. that Chautauqua had been placed (but not "laid to rest") in friendly receivership, Press Agent King adds the following points: Chautauqua's religious department, interdenominational, is headed by Chicago University's Dean Shailer Matthews. The Chautauqua Woman's Club "presents a program of noted character. Its outstanding event for 1933 was its reception to Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, when 6,000 persons were present." Chautauqua Literary & Scientific Circle is the "oldest book club in America today." Chautauqua music lovers hear their own symphony conducted by Albert Stoessel. a Little Symphony...
Retired. Dr. Shailer Mathews, for 25 years dean of Chicago University's Divinity School, on his 70th birthday. Professor at the Divinity School since 1894, he calls creeds and doctrines so much "fussiness." He will go to the Orient to preach...
...Conn.; Brown, in Warren and Providence, R. I. Dartmouth jumped from Connecticut to New Hampshire. Columbia has thrice moved northward in Manhattan. Colby has lived for 113 years on the banks of the Kennebec, long enough to feel nervous about pulling stakes. Here studied many a famed educator: Dean Shailer Mathews of the Divinity School of the University of Chicago; many a college professor; 38 U. S. college presidents (among them, oldtime presidents of Vassar, Michigan, Rochester, Centre, Colgate, Cincinnati; and Colby's present President Franklin Winslow Johnson). But noisy railroads and smelly pulp mills have lately encroached upon...