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HARVARD AMHERST England, g. g., Shields Robinson, rf. lf., Maynard Stent, lf. rf., Winston Roosevelt, rhb. lhb., Abercrombie Dorman, chb. chb., Ward Burbank, lhb. rhb., Miller Grover, ro. lo., Allis Clos, rl. ll., Clifton Manheimer, c. c., Neilson Stork, li. ri., Klaer Wood, lo. ro., Mahony...
...Smith girls are devoted to a grey-goateed, twinkly little Scotsman who as a boy ate porridge morning & evening and has had chronic indigestion ever since. He is William Allan Neilson, president of Smith since 1917, famed literary scholar, stanch liberal, editor-in-chief of the latest Webster's Dictionary. At 65 President Neilson is wise and witty, still likes to tease his tall, handsome German wife, look into almost everything that goes on in Northampton and the world...
...rewritten on the basis of 1,600,000 quotations collected since 1909 are three-fifths of the eleventh edition's contents. It contains 600,000 entries, lists & defines 122,000 more words than any other general dictionary in the world. Editor-in-Chief William Allan Neilson, president of Smith College, headed an editorial staff of 262, plus 207 specialists for technical terms (Harvard's Dean Roscoe Pound for law, Johns Hopkins' retiring President Joseph Sweetman Ames for physics, aeronautics). To 114 sharp-eared experts went the job of settling the pronunciation arguments...
Professor Hocking will introduce William A. Neilson '98, president of Smith College and national president of the institute, who will preside. Other speakers will be Dr. Karl T. Compton, president of M.I.T.; Miss Ada L. Comstock, president of Radcliffe College, and Henry W. L. Dana...
Among the members of the League's Honorary Advisory Board this year are James G. MacDonald, High Commissioner for German Refugees; Mary E. Wooley, president of Mount Holyoke College, Raymond Leslie Buell, Visiting Lecturer on Government; William A. Neilson '98, president of Smith College; and Sir Herbert Ames, former treasurer of the League of Nations...