Word: lehigh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...judging committee will consist of the following men: Alexander Meiklejohn of the University of Wisconsin, author of "The Liberal College"; Max McCom of Lehigh University, author of "College of Kindergarten": R. M. Lovett of the University of Chicago and The New Republic...
Some years ago, a Lehigh, University Professor told me this story concerning a Harvard graduate who was living in his home at that time and attending to the furnace. One day the Professor broached the subject of the Astronomical Observatory at Harvard. The young man looked puzzled and said, "Observatory? I don't know anything about such a place in Cambridge...
...Loree had nominally dropped out of the eastern contest. He still controlled his Delaware & Hudson. But he had sold his (i. e., D. & H.'s) control of the Wabash and his near control of the Lehigh Valley to the Pennsylvania. He had forfeited his option...
...Pennsylvania (William Wallace Atterbury, president) had the biggest, best-integrated, and most strategically located system of the district. It had control of the Wabash and almost half the stock of the Lehigh Valley. Most significantly it was in process of establishing itself in the public mind as the eastern railroad. This it was doing by institutional advertising and by pushing new railroad features, as electrification, air-rail transportation...
...Lehigh Valley's destiny is indeterminate, even though the Pennsylvania owns practically half its stock...