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...Reverend Burnett Hillman Streeter, D. D., fellow and lecturer of Queen's College, Oxford, will give the first series of Hewett lectures during the second-half year. These lectures have been established upon a bequest of the late Professor Waterman Thomas Hewett, of Cornell University, and will probably be given at intervals of three of four years...
...President continued his almost alphabetical breakfasts at 8 a.m. for members of the Senate and House of Representatives. The Senatorial list, already down to the S's-Shortridge, Swanson, etc.-preceded down among the W's-Wagner, Walsh, Waterman, Wheeler. At one breakfast last week, for the first time, were three women - staid Mrs. Mary Theresa Norton of New Jersey, sprightly...
...marsh grass to steel, must be dipped repeatedly into ink reservoirs. How well it would be, men early reflected, to have an ink reservoir attached to the pen. Many were the experiments during the past 100 years to do so; many the failures. About 50 years ago, Lewis E. Waterman succeeded. The hard-rubber barrels of his early pens were made in two sections screwed together. Mr. Waterman furnished medicine droppers with those early pens...
Since Lewis E. Waterman pioneered, and notably since his basic patent rights expired about 15 years ago, other makers of good fountain pens have come into the U. S. market? Sheaffer, Conklin, Parker, Wahl, Ingersoll and a dozen others. Most of them, make in addition to pens, mechanical pencils. And so well have they presented reasons for owning pen & pencil that now to carry both in purse or pocket is almost as general as to carry a clean handkerchief...
President Coolidge was there. So were Mrs. Coolidge, Mr. & Mrs. Frank Waterman Stearns, the British Ambassador & Lady Isabella Howard, the Italian Ambassador & Nobil Donna...