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Temple's benefactors have included Publisher Cyrus H. K. Curtis, his son-in-law Edward Bok, and Mr. & Mrs. George F. Tyler, who gave the $1,000,000 School of Fine Arts now headed by Sculptor Boris Blai. In 1929 Thomas D. Sullivan, president of Philadelphia's Terminal Warehouse Co. and brother of Pundit Mark Sullivan, left $278,000 towards a library. In 1934, with private benefactions dried up, President Beury turned to the PWA for $550,000 to complete the building...
...Roger's grandfather, William Deering of Maine, was nearing 50 when he visited the Midwest, found his old friend Elijah Gammon struggling with throat trouble and a manufacturing concession for Marsh harvesters. Elijah Gammon told William Deering that his machine was better than any built by powerful old Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor of the reaper. William invested $40,000 in the concession, moved to Evanston, Ill., soon bought out his partner. In 1880 he soared to the top of the brawling harvester business with a twine binder which he picked up from one John F. Appleby. Twine binders...
Rare is the bright young businessman who would not like to get control of a good little company, manufacture a good product, sell it under a good trade name. Two young men who did that were Thomas Harry Banfield and the late Cyrus Jury Parker, partners in a Portland, Ore. construction firm that they founded in 1909 with $700 cash. They did not discover their product until 1923, when they bought a local iron works as an adjunct to their contracting...
Besides Playfair the Harvard team will be composed of Francis M. Rivinus, Jr. '38, Henry O. Marcy, III '37, William H. Wright, Jr. '88, Eugene H. Walker '37, Leonard C. Leen, '36, John M. Lovejoy '37, Alexander C. Northrop '38, Charles C. Worth '37, Cyrus C. DeCoster, Jr. '37, and John R. O'Neill...
...Rough-diamend of the squad is Jack Lovejoy. Although a Junior, he started his running career this fall and immediately won imself a place on the team. So far, however, he has found trouble lengthening his stride the proper amount. Although Norman Leen, Gene Walker, John O'Neill, and cyrus DeCoster have been among the starting ten, they not yet hit their top ferm...