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...during a sea trip, that Herbert David Croly met the late financier-diplomat Major Willard Straight & Mrs. Straight, sister of Financier-Sports-man Harry Payne Whitney (she is now Mrs. Leonard K. Elmhirst of England). Greatly impressed were the Straights by the liberalism which their fellow voyager expounded with a quiet intensity which had the ring of personal, religious convictions. Son of a Manhattan journalist, he had studied philosophy at Harvard, edited the Architectural Record, written The Promise of American Life (1909), a book...
...Cornell seemed to be eclipsing Harvard, Yale. Cornell students came from all over the world to sit at the feet of James Russell Lowell, Louis Agassiz, many another great one. Cornell scientists won international fame. Cornell coffers overflowed with the wealth of Hiram Sibley, Henry W. Sage. To Cornell Willard Fiske gave books, money, a building for a splendid library. Cornell teams were invincible. Year after year Cornell crews swept the river at Poughkeepsie. Then it was no slur to be called "Cornell of the West." Into the 20th Century, under able president Jacob Gould Schurman, Cornell vigor continued unabated...
...young socialites from smart Eastern schools. Once it did draw serious young men in search of a thorough, modern education Now it has little to offer. Its teachers, sadly underpaid, are at best average. Its library, once unequalled, still boasting great collections (Dante, Petrarch, Icelandic) is slowly decaying in Willard Fiske's old building. Lack of funds prevents the erection of a new one; prevents the purchase of enough new books; limits the staff to a few hardworked, underpaid librarians. No gymnasium has Cornell; nor has it a swimming pool. It has few dormitories. More than half its students...
...winning hymn will be sung by the Class on June 15, at the chapel, services which are to be conducted by Dean Willard Learoyd Sperry of the Theological School...
...Sunday, June 15, at 4 o'clock, the Baccalaureate sermon will be given by President Lowell, who will be assisted in the service by Willard Learoyd Sperry, dean of the Theological School. Following this ceremony, there will be the customary reception at the President's home. Tuesday, June 17, is Class Day, at which time the Senior Chapel service is held. This service will be conducted by Bliss Perry. Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature. At the Class Day exercises, being held as usual on Sanders Theatre, Dean Sperry will conduct the program...