Word: utilitarian
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Starling Winston Childs, Manhattan utilitarian whose wife, Jane Coffin Childs. died last October, soon left the alumni gathering. Son Starling W. Jr., who remained, eventually explained: "My mother died of cancer and my father has never forgotten it. He has always wanted to do something about it. He has established the fund together with another person, who prefers to remain anonymous, as his contribution to the fight against the disease. The fund is created primarily to inquire into the causes of cancer rather than into its cure...
...Sage. A modest newcomer was President Roosevelt's long-time Personal Secretary Marguerite ("Missy") Le Hand, who was invested with an LL.D. by Roman Catholic Rosary College (River Forest, Ill.) at a special White House presentation while the President looked on. A similar courtesy was extended to ailing Utilitarian Henry Latham Doherty of Cities Service Co., who got an LL.D. from Temple University in his sickroom at Temple Hospital in Philadelphia. Most spectacular conjunction was the LL.D. bestowed on Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt by John Marshall College of Law in Jersey City, N. J. Greatest celebrity beat was scored...
...utilitarian memorial would be undignified. The temple at its proposed location will complete the fifth focal point of Major Pierre L'Enfant's famed 18th-Century plan of Washington, the Capitol, Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial and White House forming the other four. Emperor Hadrian's Pantheon was dear to Thomas Jefferson. Monticello, his own home, and the Rotunda of the University of Virginia are adaptations of its design...
...culture of aquatic plants and marine animals. The problem was solved by another Berkeley colleague, longtime Botany Professor William Albert Setchell. At his suggestion Dr. Gericke put together hydro from the Greek for water, and ponos, labor. He likes the word because it has "a strong economic and utilitarian connotation'' and also because of its kinship to "geoponics," the common medieval term for agriculture...
Engaged. Genevieve Garvan Brady, 52, Papal Duchess, widow of Manhattan Utilitarian Nicholas Brady; and William J. Babington Macaulay. 44, Irish Free State Minister to the Vatican...