Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...primary object of the climb, which was led by Hassler Whitney, assistant professor of Mathematics, was to train new men in rope and rock technique. C. Stacy French, Austin Teaching Fellow in Biochemistry in the Medical School, accompanied the group. Among those who made the trip besides Whitney and French, were: Bishop, Cobb, Geist, Hinton, Marvin, Meigs, Notman, Overton, Sachs, and Smith...
...came in Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Monday or Tuesday and Mr. Whitney-please step out of their cells...
This curious order was uttered early one morning last week in the old cell block of Sing Sing prison, whose gates had closed behind Richard Whitney, five-time president of the New York Stock Exchange (TIME, March 21). Starting a five-to-ten year sentence for grand larceny, holding his substantial, six-foot-two figure erect and his chin lifted, Mr. Whitney-Prisoner No. 94,835-displayed such extreme fortitude that it seemed at times like a pose. He was assigned to a tiny, damp, malodorous cell whose only plumbing was a bucket and he asked for no favors...
...convicts tend to form groups, and each group has a leader. The phenomenon of leadership in prisons is of considerable interest to prison officials, because they think that leaders are troublemakers. It is also of interest to sociologists as a part of general convict psychology. In Sing Sing, Richard Whitney is a celebrity and a man apart, but he is not likely to become a group leader. This was indicated last week by a thoroughgoing analysis of leadership in prison which appeared in the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. The author is Sociologist Donald Clemmer of the Illinois Department...
With Bill Whitney garnering two first places, in the 200 free-style and the 150 medley, the Freshmen held their annual intramural swimming championships yesterday afternoon...