Word: schurman
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Died. Jacob Schurman, 88, former U.S. Ambassador to Germany (1925-30), longtime (1892-1920) president of Cornell University; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Canadian-born he joined the Cornell faculty at the age of 32 as head of the department of philosophy, became president at 38. On leaves, he headed McKinley's first U.S. Philippine Commission in 1899, was Taft's Minister to Greece and Montenegro in 1912. He resigned from Cornell in 1920, was appointed Harding's Minister to China in 1921. As Coolidge's Ambassador to Germany he plumped hard for its rehabilitation...