Word: starrs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speaking of David Starr Jordan's pacifism in 1917, TIME said (June 8), that "In New Haven, Yale students hooted and jeered him." I was present at the meeting he held there, and this statement is not so. It is true that there were rumors of disturbance before the meeting. On the afternoon of it the Student Council posted signs about the campus urging fair play. This was observed. The meeting began in Lampson Lyceum. Jordan entered with Professor William Lyon Phelps who courageously had promised to introduce him. As they mounted the platform, Mr. Phelps said (with pardonable...
Presidents. When William Gerry Morgan, 63, of Washington straightened the green ribbon with its gold pendant around his neck, he became demonstrably the retiring 1930 president of the A. M. A. That was immediately after Edward Starr Judd, 52, of the Mayo Clinic, had delivered the speech which signified his installation as 1931 president...
Long an invalid, retired in 1916 from his 22-year presidency and three-year chancellorship, 80-year-old Dr. David Starr Jordan, chancellor emeritus, had no active part in Stanford's latter-day development. Yet when the Stanford trustees meet this week, they and Stanford's Grand Old Man will all know that the important business before the meeting, a major milestone in Stanford's history, not only rests upon the foundations of Stanford as Dr. Jordan built it but derives from a conception of Stanford's destiny which Dr. Jordan long ago passed on to his successors for execution...
Children of California. Native of Gainesville, N. Y., Cornell graduate (1872), robustious baseball player (he broke his nose at it), studious teacher of Zoology, David Starr Jordan became president in 1885 of Indiana University at Bloomington, Ind. Aged 34, he was then Youngest U. S. College President. He began at once to reorganize his inland, politically controlled institution, to cajole dollars from lackadaisical Indiana legislators. He put in practice a then radical notion: to mold education to the student rather than to force the student into a tight educational jacket...
...next 16 years, quarreling with and leaving him when she married again. Thereafter no star, once wedded, could shine in the Belasco firmament. The suggestion of ruptured romance between Actress Carter and Producer Belasco helped the latter's legend. Successively he discovered, developed, dropped Blanche Bates, Frances Starr, Ina Claire, Lenore Ulrich. Leo Dietrichstein and David Warfield also owe their careers to Producer Belasco. As carefully as he cultivated his famed Anglican clerical costume,* Producer Belasco fostered the properties, attitudes, legends which identified him. At times he was apt to croon about himself and his profession...