Word: york
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prominent national magazine has asked Dean Bender to write an article based on his speech last Tuesday before the College Scholarship Service in New York. In this talk, the Dean Predicated that "the bulk of financial aid will shortly be controlled by non-academic authorities," such as foundations, corporations and communities, and that, most important, "the next generation will see the development of a massive governmental financial aid program...
...Buttrick will retire in June as Preacher to the University and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals. He will devote his time to freelance preaching and writing, and has also been designated as the first American to serve as Harry Emerson Fosdick Visiting Professor at Union Theological Seminary, New York...
...Crimson rugby team picked up its first win of the season Saturday, as it pushed over four first-half tries to swamp the New York Rugby Club, 18 to 0. This was the first time in two years that the Crimson mustered enough strength to overcome New York...
...Natural History of New York City, by John Kieran. A naturalist's engaging account of how nature survives in the asphalt jungle...
...19th century telegrapher. During the Civil War and the years of the Reconstruction, Edison drifted from Ontario to Tennessee, living in poor boardinghouses and working in shabby Western Union offices, where he rigged up devices to electrocute roaches and rats. When he was 22, Edison landed in New York without a cent. He borrowed a dollar and got a job with a company that manufactured primitive stock tickers. As a repairman, Edison witnessed the 1869 Wall Street panic, when the "Erie Railroad Ring" tried to corner the nation's gold supply. As the crowd surged wildly about...