Word: stanford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...civil engineer, a lawyer, a student of botany and ornithology was Edwin Bryant Crocker when he arrived in California in 1852. Before he died in 1875, fat, goat-bearded and wealthy, he had served a term on the State supreme court, helped Leland Stanford build the Central Pacific Railroad, filled his brick mansion and adjacent gallery in Sacramento with an extraordinary mess of stuffed birds, shells and European art acquired in Dresden and Paris on his one trip abroad. Ten years later his widow gave the treasures and the gallery to the city of Sacramento, which later acquired the mansion...
Clifford Pierson ("Biff") Hoffman, famed onetime (1926-28) Stanford fullback, was driving his wife and their good friends, Mr. & Mrs. John McCann, in the Hoffman car on a weekend outing to Aptos, Calif. He was allegedly speeding down a tree-lined road at 60 m.p.h. when another car popped out at an intersection. They collided. Mrs. McCann was hurled out, suffered brain concussion, severe cuts & bruises...
Reynolds, who retired as president of the bank last Jan. 1. After spending his 64th birthday in California, where he first met Mrs. Reynolds and played halfback on the powerful Stanford football team of 1894, Banker Reynolds was back making work for himself as a First National director last March. Lately he has been using Mr. Baker's old office on the main floor. Until 1917 a lawyer and professor of law at Columbia (where Franklin Roosevelt attended his lectures), Mr. Reynolds was persuaded to go into banking by the elder George F. Baker, who made him First National...
Overtures to this preventive campaign appeared in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association. Bacteriologist Edwin William Schultz of Stanford University recalled Medicine's halting; progress against infantile paralysis. Serum from the blood of people who suffered from the disease failed to immunize children. Vaccines made from the spines of infected monkeys failed...
...year's. Reported Chicago's Graduate Placement Bureau, 92% placed, average monthly salary $115. Yale: 45% placed, salary $120. Princeton, "anyone who wanted to land a job could do so." Harvard, "being hired 15% ahead of 1936." Columbia, "1937 will join 1936 and 1930 as peak years." Stanford, "50% increase in placements, salaries $105." U. S. Steel took 594 from 91 colleges, American Telephone & Telegraph 300, General Electric 700, Goodyear Tire and Firestone no each...