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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...invested $5,000 apiece. John Gray put up $10,000 but "didn't think the stock would amount to anything and wouldn't advise anybody to invest in it." Horace H. Rackham had $5,000 that he hoped would grow. Mr. Couzens' sister, Mrs. Rosetta V. Hauss placed $100 in the pie. These people and a few others had children and grandchildren who were born with silver spoons in their mouths. Today the living and the heirs of the dead are being sued by the U. S. Govern-ment for a thousand times the amount of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Millions | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

...reading, as non-Harvard men can discover in "Copey's" an- thology, may start off with something from the Bible-nothing dull like all those "begatters" (ST. MATTHEW,) but something with action like the Israelites' conquest of Canaan (JUDGES IV :V), something affecting like David's lament for Absalom (SAMUEL XVIII; XIX), or something portentous out of REVELATION. Or it may begin with so different a thing as Lewis Carroll's "You are old, Father William," the young man said, "And your hair has become very white; " And yet you incessantly stand on your head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Copey | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

...Zoology 15--Experimental Embryology, will be given by Professor H. V. Neal (Tufts College), instead of Associate Professor Datwiler as previously announced. Hours to be arranged...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Announces Several Changes in Curriculum for Second Half Year--Courses Added, Dropped and Altered | 1/15/1927 | See Source »

Under the auspices of the Seminary of Economics, Dr. R. R. Kuezynski, German economist, will speak Monday evening on. "The Economic Unification or Europe." Dr. Kuezynski was formerly Municipal Statistician of Sohoenberg, Germany, and is a high authority in his field. The lecture will be held in Widener V at 7.45 o'clock, and will be open to members of the Seminar and their guests...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kuezynski to Lecture | 1/15/1927 | See Source »

...Carthage, Illinois, Associate partner of the firm of John Nolen, landscape architects, a past winner of the contest, and Gordon Culham, M.L.A., in City Planning. '25, of the Olmsted office in Brookline, who served with Professor J. L. Pray '95, chairman of the School of Landscape Architecture; Professor H. V. Hubbard '97, of the firm of Olmsted Brothers; and Professor B. W. Pond, M.L.A. '11, President of the Boston Society of Landscape Architects...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 1/13/1927 | See Source »

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