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Barbara Munro Schurman, 65, relict of the late Jacob Gould Schurman, onetime (1892-1920) president of Cornell University, onetime (1925-29) Ambassador to Germany; of pneumonia; in Bedford...
...record in support of edu-cation." The first week in April, Cornellmen all over the U. S. and Canada were solicited for alma mater in a campaign patterned after the Red Cross roll-call. Over the radio went the voices of longtime (1892-1920) President Jacob Gould Schurman, President Livingston Farrand and Myron Charles Taylor, Class of 1894, chairman of U. S. Steel Corp.'s finance committee. Campaigners strove to overpass Yale's record for alumni subscribers (9,493) made in 1928. Cornell results: total subscribers for year ending June 30: 10,134. Total gifts for year...
...start a movement for the amelioration of the then unintelligently managed insane asylums. WTilliam James encouraged him. Psychiatrist Adolf Meyer invented for him the phrase "mental hygiene." Great names joined his movement for a National Committee on Mental Hygiene? William Henry Welch, William Herbert Perry Faunce, Jacob Gould Schurman, Julia Clifford Lathrop. Twenty-two years ago this month 14 people, including zealous Mr. Beers, met at the New Haven home of Anson Phelps Stokes. Dr. Stokes now is canon of the Washington Cathedral, engaged in writing History of Universities from Their Origin to the Present Time...
...Sage. To Cornell Willard Fiske gave books, money, a building for a splendid library. Cornell teams were invincible. Year after year Cornell crews swept the river at Poughkeepsie. Then it was no slur to be called "Cornell of the West." Into the 20th Century, under able president Jacob Gould Schurman, Cornell vigor continued unabated, Cornell reputation high...
Engaged. Elizabeth Evans Hughes, 23, daughter of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes; and William Thomas Gossett, 25, lawyer employe of Hughes, Schurman & Dwight, the Chief Justice's onetime Manhattan firm...