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...Stern, for a Harvard National Scholarship preferably for a student from Louisiana 26,118.75 Jesse Isidor Straus '93, and Percy S. Straus '97 25,000.00 Mr. and Mrs. Henry Osborn Taylor 25,000.00 Frederick M. Warburg '19, for "The Henry C. Flower, 3d, National Scholarship" 25,021.00 Phillip W. Wrenn '94 25,200.00 Mrs. Langbourne M. Williams, Jr., "in memory of my father, Charles Chauncey Stillman, Class of 1898" 25,000.00 Sundry other subscriptions of under $5,000.00 each 117,120.50 Total specifically for endowment of Harvard National Scholarships 1,043,685.75 (4) To provide mobile funds for instruction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TERCENTENARY FUND | 9/25/1936 | See Source »

...converting the town into a bright, inhabited museum. Down newly-restored Duke of Gloucester Street President Roosevelt rode to the campus of the College of William & Mary, second oldest (1693) in the U. S.* On the stoop of its restored main building, designed by Sir Christopher Wrenn and Completed in 1697, the President sat in cap & gown while Publisher John Stewart Bryan of Richmond took oath as the college's 19th president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: At Williamsburg | 10/29/1934 | See Source »

...November 1931, the Satevepost published a short story called "Almost Reilly," by Robert Winsmore. Plot : Scatterbrained young Mrs. Madge Wrenn repeats to her stockbroker husband a tip which her hairdresser has received from someone whose name is "Almost Reilly. . . . Not Kelly. More like Reilly." The tip turns out to have come from an astrologer. By the time William Wrenn finds this out, he and his friends have bought the stock and lost money. Madge Wrenn has bought before gossip sent the stock, up, sold for a profit on the bulge caused by the talk the tip started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Welcome to Ulysses | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

...Fisher, L. A. Frothingham, Harry Gans, H. M. Goodwin, Pinckney Holbrook, D. G. Haskins, E. W. Hutchins, Charles Jackson, W. S. H. Lothrop, Angela Morris, J. M. Newell, T. N. Perkins, J. W. Platner, Calhoun Stanwood, J. J. Thomas, G. W. Valiant, E. A. Whitman, Alexander Whiteside, Phillip Wrenn, and F. H. Williams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANNOUNCE PATRONESSES FOR BEN GREET PLAYERS | 1/12/1932 | See Source »

...while Lott put on a blazer, moved over to a microphone in his slow pigeon-toed shuffle. Theorists wondered whether Vines would, like Doeg, slump after becoming champion; or whether, which seemed a shade more likely, he would improve enough to dominate U. S. tennis like Tilden, McLoughlin, Larned, Wrenn, and Richard D. Sears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Jubilee | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

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