Word: thomson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four thousand dollars were given for scholarships for civics teachers in the new Graduate School of Teaching by Frank G. Thomson '97, a Philadelphia lawyer...
...Thomson is a member of the Overseers Committee on the Department of Government at Harvard and has been a donor to the College previously. Two months ago he announced that he had made provision in his will for a trust fund of $750,000 of which he is the beneficiary, to be ultimately turned over to the Government department here...
...formation and expansion. Completing a continuous, one-track road from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh in 1852, the Pennsylvania grew by acquiring a financial interest in many a line west of Pittsburgh. Chief engineer from 1847 to 1852 and president from 1852 until his death in 1874 was John Edgar Thomson...
From 1874 through 1898 the Pennsylvania did not do much more than consolidate the structure whose foundation President Thomson had laid, although in this second period many new lines were acquired. By 1898, however, gross revenue (east of Pittsburgh and Erie) had risen to only $65,000,000, although the company was carrying 84,220,000 tons of freight and some 36,000,000 passengers...
Peter L. Scott '38, E. Craig Thomson '39, Robert W. Tilney '39, William Vaughan '38, Robert C. Walker, Jr. '38, David C. Wilder...