Word: barnard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...celebrate the golden jubilee of Barnard College, Dean Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve asked visiting notables to review their adventures in scholarship, to show students that "It's fun to use your mind." English Professor Marjorie Hope Nicolson of Smith College remembered her elation at discovering the "Conway Letters" (detailing the romance of a Cambridge University philosopher and a beautiful young viscountess) in a chilly Cambridge library: "I wore all the clothes I owned, all the sweaters, all the coats. I wore mittens and gloves and I sat writing and copying those letters, with tears partly of cold and partly...
Because his father had long been a power in New Jersey Republican politics, young Butler planned to study law, go into politics himself. But Columbia's President Frederick A. P. Barnard persuaded him into pedagogy. He lived to fulfill Dean Burgess' prediction, to expand Columbia from 5,000 to more than 32,000 students, to turn down the presidencies of Stanford and the State universities of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Colorado, Washington and California. Dr. Butler reports that Governor Leland Stanford of California offered him $25,000 to be Stanford's first president, when Dr. Butler...
John Radford Abbet, Jr., George Augustus Barnard, 3rd, Robert Adams Bastille, Richard Milton Bloch, John Lodge Cady, Robert Manley Chase, Francis Lester Dawson, Henry Hinckley Dearing, Jr., Emil Ludwig Ebert, Norman Clifford Farnlof, John Reed Friar, Robert Loring Glass...
...presidency of Brooklyn College-(salary: $15,000), New York City's Board of Higher Education elected Economics Professor Harry David Gideonse, renowned opponent of University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins' education theories. Gideonse last year quit Chicago, has since taught at Columbia's Barnard College...
Reason for the convention: Robert Wadlow, tallest man in the world (he claims an alltime high of 8 ft. 8 in.), had brought suit for $100,000 against Dr. Charles Dean Humberd of Barnard, Mo. Dr. Humberd had described Wadlow, in a scientific article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, as "apathetic, unfriendly, antagonistic...