Word: baron
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exceptional opportunities offered to each student at Harvard as an individual are most clearly presented in the article by Le Baron Russell Briggs '75. This was found valuable by several Freshmen in that it pointed out to them at the beginning that what they do for Harvard and what they get out of their four years depends entirely on nothing and no one but themselves. The Tradition Booklet helped show these men what opportunities and what heritage of tradition surrounds them. Twenty-five first year men were interviewed in obtaining this consensus of opinion...
...Harvard alumni have also commented extensively on the article, "Customs and Manners at Harvard," by W. I. Nichols '26. The article on late educational developments in the University by Dean Banford is being reprinted in educational journals. President Lowell, W. J. Bingham '16, Henry Cannon Clark '11, and Le Baron Russell Briggs '75 and R. A. Stout '29 are other contributors...
...Alfred Mond, the great chemical tycoon, was created Baron Melchett not long after he instituted the so-called Mond Conferences (TIME, Jan. 23), facilitating direct group bargaining between Employer and Employed, without meddlesome intervention from the Government. The left wing of British Labor considers that unions now attempting to cooperate with employers through Mond Conferences are obtaining little except efficient and scientific demonstrations that higher wages or shorter hours are quite unfeasable...
...Baron Ehrenfried von Huenefeld, trans-Atlantic air passenger, recovered from an appendicitis operation, straightway enrolled in a flying school at Stuttgart, Germany...
Once only, Jay Gould waited in the European anteroom of a Banker Rothschild. He had sent in his card. Presently, it was returned to him with a message. "Europe," observed Banker-Baron Rothschild, "is not for sale...