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...looks and gentle manners, took him away in an automobile, deserted him on a lonely highroad. The puppy made his way back. Finding that the beast survived even his own natural inclination to sniff at whirling propellers and perform in the path of descending planes, this flyer, one Waldo Robey, pilot of the Porterfield Flying School, took him 800 feet up in a plane, dropped him overboard. The diminutive body, smashed to pulp, buried itself a foot deep in the earth. . . . "Just a little prank," said Pilot Robey, grinning uneasily. E. E. Porterfield Jr. (head of the Porterfield Flying School...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: May 31, 1926 | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

...birthday of Ralph Waldo Emerson will be celebrated today by members of the Boston Ethical Society and others who wish to acknowledge their debt to him, by a pilgrimage to Concord...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Emerson's Birthday Celebrated | 5/25/1926 | See Source »

President Hibben is one of a distinguished line of Phi Beta Kappa orators which is headed by Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose speech on the occasion of his appearance at the Phi Beta Kappa exercises has been regarded as among his most famous utterances...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HIBBEN IS NAMED PHI BETA KAPPA ORATOR | 5/18/1926 | See Source »

Engaged. Miss Constance Moody, granddaughter of famed evangelist Dwight L. Moody, daughter of the noted head of the Northfield Seminary for Girls and the Mount Hermon School for Boys; to one William Waldo Case of Farmington, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 1, 1926 | 2/1/1926 | See Source »

Tonight's affair is the most important meeting of the Society during the year. The banquet has been held annually since the founding of the Harvard Chapter, and has brought forth notable speeches on scholarship and education by some of America's foremost intellectual leaders. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1821, and President-Emeritus Charles W. Eliot '53, at former banquets of the same nature as tonight's delivered speeches on education that have since become classics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PHI BETA KAPPA HOLDS BANQUET THIS EVENING | 12/1/1925 | See Source »

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