Word: stanford
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...request of the Dartmouth Athletic Council for the use of the Harvard Stadium for a football game with Leland Stanford University two years from this fall will be referred to the Corporation, the only body with authority to grant or withhold this favor. Although the remoteness of the event may make the question appear unimportant, there is inherent in it a kind of test...
...athletic rival has shown Harvard a courtesy in filing such a request. To Leland Stanford, Dartmouth and to all New England the game will mean much. Harvard itself can only gets by returning the courtesy of the Dartmouth Council, a gesture which will properly belie the charges of aloofness aimed at the University...
That brought the brothers about even. Perhaps young Ray Lyman even had an edge. He certainly had an edge when Her bert Clark Hoover, his Stanford contem porary, called him to War-time Washington as an assistant. Superior Judge Curtis Dwight remained, augustly but withal provincially, in California, while young Ray Lyman mixed excitingly in national affairs...
...ended, Ray Lyman returned to Stanford and Fate gave the next two spurts to Curtis Dwight. In 1919 he ascended to California's Supreme Bench. In 1922 he became Chief Justice. Then, after the Denby trouble, when President Coolidge was at a loss for a man to put in as Secretary of the Navy, a state-loyal California newshawk sent in the name of Curtis Dwight Wilbur?"Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California." On paper it looked magnificent, and Calvin Coolidge had not then been President long enough to know how magnificent paper can make some things...
...Taylor has written expositions of the development of thought belief, and culture. Since he confines himself so exclusively to writing Dr. Taylor does not hold any professorship in any university and lectures but rarely. He was the Lowell lecturer at Harvard in 1917 and the West lecturer in Leland Stanford University in 1920. He has spoken occasionally before the National Institute of Arts and Letters of which he is a member. Tomorrow he will discuss "Primitive Strain and Religion" and on Thursday will speak on "Fact in Art and Science...