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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this time the party was under the leadership of H. H. F. Jayne '21, Curator of Oriental art at the Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia. Dr. Horace Stimson of the Peter Beht Brigham Hospital, R. F. S. Starr, the photographer and Alan Priest '23, tutor in Fine Arts, and Daniel V. Thompson '22, also of the division of Fine Arts, were assisting in their various capacities. Langdon Warner '03, of the Fogg Museum had been delayed in Peking on other business for the college, but joined them some three days after they had been forced to retire from Tun Huang. Messrs. Jayne...
...V. Field, who was elected Treasurer, is President of the Crimson, a member of the executive committee of the American Student Federation, and Vice-President of the Phillips Brooks House Association...
...mining circles it was already secure. About 1900 he returned to the U.S. He was employed by the Guggenheims at a fabulous salary, reputed to be as much as a $1,000,000 a year. He was sent as special U. S. Ambassador to the coronation of George V. The Czar of Russia twice called him to consult on irrigation and other engineering problems. President Taft (his very good friend) offered him the post of Minister to China (which he refused). He became interested in irrigation, electric power, electric railway developments on a large scale and on several continents...
...mind marrying into one. Her father, Martin Wilie Littleton, is a lawyer of the very first rank and a self-made man every inch of the way. How much insistence and assistance from her lay behind young Vanderbilt's break from Hearst, his formation of the C-V Feature Service and later his beginnings of a grander venture, a chain of tabloid newspapers, doubtless young Vanderbilt himself could not say. Perhaps it was very largely her vigorous nature's impatience with any thing or man not standing on its or his own feet that steeled her husband, Macbeth-wise...
...Classical Instructors of Harvard University, "Four Introductory Lectures," "La Methode Comparative en Linguistique Historique," by A. Meillet, "Custom and Right," by Paul Vinogradoff, "Mankind, Nation, and Individual," by Otto Jesperson, "Sanlede Skrifter," by Moltke Moe, "Santal Folk Tales," by P. O. Bodding, "Trends in American Seconary Education," by Leonard V. Koos, "The American Wool Manufacture," by A. H. Cole '13, Assistant Professor of Economics in Harvard University, "Cotton Mather, The Puritan Priest," by Barrett Wendell '02, "Increase Mather, The Foremost American Puritan," by Kenneth B. Murdock '17, "Guminberg to Platini," by G. P. Winship '93, "Prints and Books: Informal Papers...