Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate days). Mr. Deneen and the other defenders of Mr. Smith insisted that he be seated first and investigated after ward. Mr. Deneen cited many a precedent,* challenged the right of the Senate to deprive Illinois of its legally appointed, constitutional representative. Senator Reed of Missouri, who had last summer investi gated Mr. Smith's public utility campaign fund, summed up the case against him. Said Mr. Reed: "It is absurd to say the oath must first be administered, then a hearing held and expulsion take place. That would seem to be a rather ridiculous performance. We have held...
...Mission Committee carries on the work of philanthropy a step farther. In addition to arranging lectures and meeting for men interested in missionary work and maintaining contact with Harvard men engaged in such work, it conducts a Daily Vacation Bible School during the summer for some fifty Cambridge children. This school is as a rule under the leadership of a Harvard man. It gives the children two hours a day of handwork, singing, Bible study, and exercise...
...been the home and workroom of distinguished botanists, such as Nutall and Gray. The first Summer School courses were given her be Dr. Gray. Its influence in past generations has been tremendous in many ways, from inspiration for botanical research to the training of American gardeners...
...Hamblin, "gradually the functions of the garden were divided and separated from the parent, in all cases becoming eventually greater departments, through the energy of one or more devoted workers who gained their first inspiration at the Garden. Thus there grew from the seed at the Garden the Summer School, Gray Herbarium, Arnold Aboretum, Botanical Museum, Plant Physiology, and the teaching of botany, all long planted in more favorable locations and now well developed. The purposes now served by these departments were once centered at the Garden, and probably no other department of the University has been so prolific...
...confused with K'ung Hsiang Hsi, a relative, China's representative at the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial, who was honored during his stay in the U. S. last summer with an LL.D. from Oberlin University...