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...occasion was the centennial celebration of the New York Central. In 1826 the New York legislature chartered the Mohawk and Hudson Railroad† to operate between the two upstate cities. In 1831 service began with the first run of the DeWitt Clinton, the tiny locomotive usually exhibited in the Grand Central Terminal. This day last week it was permitted to labor over its old run to solemnize the celebration. In .further rite a bronze tablet was unveiled in both the original terminal cities. The same evening the railway dignitaries and their guests were back in Manhattan dining...
Deemed less "radical" is Christian Work. Some 60 years ago T. DeWitt Talmage was its editor; succeeded by Dr. William M. Taylor of the Broadway Tabernacle, Manhattan. Dr. Frederick Lynch became editor in 1913. In 1919 came Henry Strong Huntington as associate editor, in 1923 Dr. Frederic Remington as executive editor, and in 1924 Fred Eastman as managing editor...
...John M. T. Finney, of Johns Hopkins University, Vice Chairman; Judge John H. Dewitt, of Nashville; Edward Dickinson Duffield, President of the Prudential Life Insurance Company, Newark; President Cheesman A. Merrick, Girard College, Philadelphia; Judge Nelson H. Loomis, general counsel of the Union Pacific Railroad, Omaha; Judge Nathan G. Moore, Oak Park, 111.; Robert E. Speer,* Secretary of the Board of Foreign Missions, Manhattan...
After the death of President Ernest DeWitt Burton late last May, Professors Billings, Tufts, Manly, Gale, Woodward and Laing of the University of Chicago knitted brows with Trustees Harold H. Swift (meats), Martin A. Ryerson (finance), Albert W. Sherer, William Scott Bond, Charles W. Gilkey, Thomas E. Donnelly, Robert L. Scott and Dr. Frank Billings, over the baffling question of Dr. Burton's successor. Every week they met, soon eliminating as unsuitable all prospects on the home campus, casting their eyes afield now upon this capable small-college administrator in the East, now upon that efficient personality...
...William Rainey Harper was President from the founding of the University in 1892 to 1906. President Harper was followed by: Harry Pratt Judson (1906-23) ; Ernest DeWitt Burton...