Word: wilbur
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Dean Wilbur Lucius Cross of the Graduate School announced this fall that he would retire from the faculty at end of the year, a full professorship in the English department was left vacant. After 14 years of well-received teaching at Yale, popular Mr. French hoped that the fruits of his long labors might be rewarded. But another consideration arose last month. He was offered the Provostship of Avon Old Farms, a pretentious two-year-old experimental school at Avon, Conn...
...with a high degree of satisfaction that I, with many another Stanfordite, read of Secretary-President Wilbur's work in TIME, Dec. 9. Can one statement in particular, ". . . bring to his job an attitude of mind different from the general run of office holders," be considered as TIME'S apology for calling Secretary Wilbur President Hoover's "prime 'yes' man" (TIME, March...
...Wilbur's alertness and abilities are shown in his accomplishments with problems of education, conservation, Indian affairs, pensions, parks, public domain...
What Christian Scientists have objected to in all but the authorized life of Mrs. Eddy (The Life of Mary Baker Eddy by Sibyl Wilbur) are alleged misstatements, "obnoxious," libelous, about the founder of Christian Science. Author Dakin's book says that Mary Baker Eddy plagiarized, took morphine, made no miraculous cures...
...Wilbur--"Journey's End". A play that lives up to its reputation...