Word: matthiessen
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Undergraduates competing for Rhodes Scholarships this year must file their applications by November 7, and must secure their letter of recommendation from President Conant's secretary before October 24, according to an announcement last night by Francis O. Matthiessen, secretary of the Massachusetts State Committee of Selection...
...President Conant's absence in Europe, applicants will have to make arrangements with his secretary to secure their letters of recommendation. If a student is competing from Massachusetts, he would turn in his papers to Professor Matthiessen; if he decides to apply from his own state, he should give them to the Secretary of his State Committee...
Personal interviews between candidates and the secretaries are scheduled for December 17 or 19, according to the state. Application blanks and the Rhodes Scholarship Memorandum for 1936 can be obtained from Mr. Matthiessen, whose office hours are N-21 Eliot House from 2.00 to 2.30 o'clock Mondays and Wednesdays. He advises all candidates to read the "Oxford Handbook" on reserve in the Widener Reading Room...
...still has plenty of timekeeping talent in the person of President Ralph H. Matthiessen, scion of the other GTI clock family. The first clock-making Matthiessen was a German immigrant with a Heidelberg education who made good with a zinc smelter in La Salle, Ill. He had an idea that clocks could be soldered together instead of riveted, at a great saving. In 1885 he founded Western Clock Co. near his smelter. His competitors called his Westclox line "lead clocks," but they sold faster & faster, and in 1910 Western made clock history by pricing...
Curiously, President Matthiessen inherited his interest in time not from his father, who was one of the founders and the first president of Corn Products Refining Co., but from his mother, who was a daughter of the Westclox founder and married a relative of the same name. Now 46, tall, rangy, athletic, President Matthiessen lives at Irvington-on-Hudson outside Manhattan. In announcing a smart increase in GTI's first quarter earnings ($310,000 against $135,000), President Matthiessen cautiously warned that part of the "abnormal increase" was caused by the introduction of several new models...