Word: yale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...give a half-million dollars to build a college on land which the Federal Government would give away. Beside him sat his wife, and young Senator White. The latter was interested in education because he had some. He had attended Hobart College (Geneva, N. Y), been graduated from Yale, studied in Paris and Berlin. He had taught history at Michigan University. He had read and thought about the old English universities. His father had made money building railroads in the West...
...lecturer, Dean Everett Victor Meeks of the Yale School of Fine Arts, demands plenty of attention and reading in his course in architectural history, demands fat noteboks with multitudes of clipped illustrations. It is not an easy course. Yet it is crowded, relished. Probably even more satisfying to Dean Meeks is the fact that since his coming to the School of Fine Arts in 1916 it has become, in competition with nationwide art schools and ateliers, the most successful prize-winning institution in the country. Yale students have taken the annual Prix de Rome in painting, most coveted award...
Last week Dean Meeks heard that Burton Kenneth Johnson, 22, son of a Chicago dentist, had won the 1929 Prix de Rome in Architecture-third to be given to a Yale student in the past five years. True, Architect Johnson first went to Yale last fall, after four years architectural study at the University of Illinois, where he won honorable mention in last year's Prix Competition. But the honor of tuning him to prize-winning pitch was Yale...
Much credit for Yale's triumphs must go to Dean Meeks, who has built up the faculty and student personnel of his school. He is 50, a roly-poly little man with a swarthy moon-face, merry squinting eyes, black mustache and knobby goatee-a small Sultan in mufti. A native of Mount Vernon. N. Y., he is an alumnus of Yale, studied architecture at Columbia University and in Paris. He worked as a draughtsman with the famed firm of Carrere & Hastings. In 1914 he began practicing for himself, still executes an occasional design. He is a bachelor...
...Yale stroke, set at a much higher beat, makes little use of the long lay-back favored by the Harvard oarsmen, with the result that the Blue tipped oars, while at a higher clip, do not pull the length of water handled by the Crimson sweeps...