Word: waynesburg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lecturer on Avestan in the first half year Harvard will have Herbert P. Houghton, since 1923 professor of Greek and Sanskrit at Carleton College. Before going to Carleton, Dr. Houghton was President of Waynesburg College 1915-18; and President of Carrol College, Wisconsin, 1918-20. At the age of forty, he was ordained as a minister in the Protestant Episcopal Church, and in 1923-29 was rector of All Saints Church, Northfield, Minn...
...modest little man from Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, returning to Cambridge for the first time since he was graduated from Law School in 1903, Mr. Rinehart readily acknowledged that he was the original Rinehart, whose name has long since become the terror of Colonel Apted's loyal cohorts, a battle cry voiced by Yardling warriors in their first rabble and inebriated grads at Club dinners alike...
After completing his law school course, Mr. Rinchart practised law for a while in Waynesburg and when the United States entered the War he joined the aviation service. He was totally disabled by service in the War and has not practised law since...
...Painter Blythe became engaged to pretty, popular Julia Keffer of East Liverpool, settled down over a store in Uniontown, Pa., seat of Fayette County. He was commissioned to carve a huge wooden statue of Lafayette for the new county courthouse, which made citizens of nearby Waynesburg, seat of Greene County, want a similar monument to General Greene. When he asked $300 for the job, Waynesburgers hotly replied that they did'"not propose to give him the whole county for his work," hired a local craftsman. Painter Blythe retorted with a long poem in the Uniontown newspaper criticizing Waynesburg...
Herbert P. Houghton, professor of Greek and Sanskrit at Carleton College, Northfield Minnesota, will be lecturer on Avestan for the first half of the academic year 1936-37. Professor Houghton is a recognized authority in the fields of Archaeology, Greek, and Sanskrit, and has taught at Princeton, Amherst, and Waynesburg where he was president from...