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...seven months after he had flown for the first time, he set a world's altitude record: 6,750 ft. As a wartime aviator he dropped over a ton of bombs upon the German ammunition depot at Bruges, Belgium. He ia now a partner in the London brokerage firm of William P. Bonbright...
John Paul Jones never had an opportunity to concentrate on the two-mile event during any spring campaign when he was undergraduate. It is my firm belief, however, that he could have broken any American college record existing today from 880 yards to ten miles...
...sent his son, Sam Adolph, to Princeton ('04) and to Columbia Law School ('07), then took him into the firm, now Adolph Lewisohn & Sons. As wealth accumulated he entered philanthropy in the educational and artistic fields. He housed the Columbia School of Mines with a gift of $300,000. He assisted the College of the City of New York to form a German library, to build an athletic stadium. He collected paintings-Blakelock, Bellows and other moderns as well as Rembrandt, Titian, Dürer-and put them where they could be enjoyed by the people as well...
...contract for the construction has already been let and it is expected that work will start shortly. The buildings are to be ready for occupancy by the middle of next September. The designing of the houses has been done by Kilham, Hopkins and Greely, a firm of Boston architects. The letting of rooms will be under the supervision of Mr. George W. Robinson, Secretary of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
There was a figure like an English country gentleman-Mr. George H. Doran. There was a firm-jawed, genial Virginian-John Macrae, president of E. P. Button & Co. There was a well-preserved gentleman of some 67 summers, upon whose watch-chain hung a small gold ivy leaf-Arthur Hawley Scribner, who with his older brother Charles has carried on the business begun by their father in 1846. The swarthy gentleman whose dress, manner and accent bespoke the complete cultured cosmopolite was Alfred A. Knopf, master of the coursing Borzoi hound; the handsome lady with him -Mrs. Knopf...