Word: stanford
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Planetary Thinkers." The graduating class at Stanford University heard Dr. John Huston Finley of the New York Times utter the following: "Your president, Dr. Wilbur,* and your most distinguished graduate, Herbert Hoover . . . are the foremost planetary thinkers of this...
...These are the only Hoover grandchildren. Allan Hoover, 21, Stanford University Senior, is unmarried. He attended the convention as a page. Herbert Clark Hoover Jr., 24, is an instructor in economics at the Business School of Harvard University...
...BETTER SCHOOLS" professes to be "a survey of progressive education in American public schools." It is written by Carleton Washburne, the superintendent of the public school system in Winnetka, Illinois, who has transformed his schools into an educational laboratory; and by Myron M. Stearns, a graduate of Stanford University and a magazine author of note. The collaboration is a fortunate one, the joint product being both instructive and entertaining, something which cannot be said of the majority of the many books now being written on the subject of secondary education...
...Goodbody '31 Toledo, O. 183 6.01 20 No. 3 R. Schley '31 Far Hills, N. J. 175 6.01 19 No. 2 J. R. Hunt '31 New York 176 6.01 19 Bow J. Holbrook '31 New York 168 5.11 19 Cox., W. S. Gillespie '31 Stanford, Conn...
Harry K. Thaw, Pittsburgh richman, killer of Architect Stanford White (1906), was tapped on the shoulder as he prepared to disembark from the Aquitania at Southampton, England. A steward asked him to go to the lounge where a British immigration official told him that he was not permitted to set foot on British soil. The only reason given him was "instructions from the Home Office." Befuddled, vexed, Mr. Thaw told reporters: "This is amazing. I cannot understand it at all. England was fair and square when I was here before, 23 years ago. ... I am a friend of Secretary Mellon...