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Some time next spring Dr. Bowman will quit his home in Yonkers, N. Y., move to Baltimore. There, on July 1, he will take over the reins of Johns Hopkins from Joseph Sweetman Ames who is retiring...
...Active patron of Philadelphia's campaign for $3,752,000 was onetime Senator George Wharton Pepper. Milwaukee wanted $1,113,248 and big, hearty President Michael Joseph Cleary of Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. was out to see that it got it. Johns Hopkins' President Joseph Sweetman Ames kept after citizens of Baltimore for the last $150,000 of a set $1,150,000. No Community Chest has New York City but Banker James Gillespie Blaine and his Citizens Family Welfare Committee sought $2.000,000 for a dozen or so family welfare agencies...
...defines 122,000 more words than any other general dictionary in the world. Editor-in-Chief William Allan Neilson, president of Smith College, headed an editorial staff of 262, plus 207 specialists for technical terms (Harvard's Dean Roscoe Pound for law, Johns Hopkins' retiring President Joseph Sweetman Ames for physics, aeronautics). To 114 sharp-eared experts went the job of settling the pronunciation arguments of 120,000,000 U. S. citizens...
...League of Nations." Yalemen were wondering how many more commencements would be graced by President James Rowland Angell, 65. At this, his 13th, he was to preach the baccalaureate, award an LL. D. to President Roosevelt' (see p. 48), send away some 600 seniors. Joseph Sweetman Ames. 69, who has been student, professor and finally president at Johns Hopkins since 1883, was leaving no doubt in Hopkins men's minds. This week he was to announce that next year's commencement will be his last...
...m.p.h.). Also to Langley Field went some 200 other leaders of U. S. aviation, including Orville Wright, for the ninth annual aircraft engineering research conference of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Run off with precise showmanship by affable, grey-haired Dr. Joseph Sweetman Ames, committee chairman and president of Johns Hopkins University, the conference developed from a year's research these facts & fancies...