Word: southerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Henry Pennypacker '88, chairman of the Harvard Faculty Committee on Admission, will leave on January 19 for a tour of the South, which will last three weeks and take him as far as Atlanta. He will speak in schools of the principal Southern cities and confer with principals and teachers on questions of admission to college. Incidentally he will talk to Harvard Clubs and other meetings of Harvard men, discussing with them the newest developments in Cambridge and answering their questions about the University. His prime subject, however, is to acquaint educators and pupils with entrance requirements of the Eastern...
Howard Earle Coffin, retired motors tycoon, bought Sapeloe 17 years ago and developed it the way other tycoons (Goulds, McAlpins, Rockefellers, Drexels, Fords, Carnegies, du Ponts, et al.) have developed Jekyl, St. Simon's and other Golden Islands.* He built a mansion Spanish in style, Southern in rambling scope. He cut bridle paths and motor roads and stocked his forest with pheasants, peacocks, wild turkeys, deer.. Quail, 'possum and waterfowl were there in natural abundance. Through no imaginable chance should the President be "skunked" again on his next shooting foray if he makes it on Sapeloe...
...pens. The third pen was handed to a Hearst newspaperman. Dr. Elwood Mead, chief of the U. S. Reclamation Service (Interior Department), immediately sent a telegram to his chief engineer at Denver, directing him to mobilize a construction army and begin the $165,000,000 project forthwith. In Southern California and Nevada, people fired shotguns and banged on frying pans...
Geologist Bailey Willis, 71, of Stanford, who was to talk through his swaggering mustache and beard on "Continental Genesis." He knows seismology, has predicted bad earthquakes in Southern California. But his reputation rests more securely on his explanation of the stratigraphy, structural geology and physiography of North America, Europe and Asia as the record of continental developments...
Last week, however, this failure was at least freed from any suspicion of fraud. Forrest Adair Sr., Forrest Adair Jr., Frank Adair and E. A. Erwin, officials of the bankrupt firm, were acquitted of using the mails to defraud in connection with the building of three southern hotels which never were completed. Stockholders in these projects lost nearly $3,000,000. After a month's trial, a jury decided that the Adair failure was legitimate...