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...Into the oak-paneled board room marched the regents once again, listened to a letter from Governor Benson requesting that they right an old injustice. "We cannot suffer a precedent to stand, under which, during periods of hysteria, honorable teachers are humiliated and dismissed in disgrace because their views happen not to coincide with the views of those in power." With only one dissenting vote-that of Fred B. Snyder, president of the board in 1917 and now-the board rescinded the 1917 dismissal, voted Professor Schaper $5,000 as salary for the year 1917-18. Because...
Class of 1940: Joseph N. Ball, Jr., Philadelphia; Robert S. Bart, West Redding, Connecticut; Melvin B. Black, Roxbury; Robert H. Clapp, Watertown; William N. Dale, Clinton, New York; Otto W. Fick. Jr.; Oak Park, Illinois; George M. Firestone, St. Paul, Minnesota: Arnold S. Gale, Brookline; Tudor Gardiner, Gardiner, Maine; Leonard C. Holvik, Elbow Lake, Minnesota; Garfield H. Horn, Elk Grove, California; Ward MacL. Hussey, Chicago, Illinois; George S. Kurland, Dorchester; Paul Olum. Binghampton, New York; Robert L. Peesok. Peninsula, Ohio; Isadore N. Rosenberg Boston; Stanley J. Sigel, Portland, Maine; Charles G. Swain Wolaston; Leverett S. Tuckerman, Jr., Saem: and Harry...
Prairie Houses. While Louis Sullivan was working on public buildings, what few commissions Adler & Sullivan were given for private houses fell to Frank Lloyd Wright to design. At 20 he married and borrowed $5,000 from Sullivan to build his own home in Oak Park. For the sheer pleasure of it as well as to pay the debts he easily contracted for his growing family, Wright took what jobs he could get designing private houses outside the office. This angered Sullivan and in 1894, after nearly six years with the firm, Wright threw down his pencil and walked...
Against this argument the fact stands that, out of more than 150 clients, only three or four have been seriously dissatisfied over money or anything else. Both in the early Oak Park period and later, Wright has in general attracted clients who had enough money to be adventurous but not enough to be stuffy. His personal improvidence is legendary. But the best piece of evidence that Wright will, when really necessary, pay careful heed to the means of his client is the one-story, six-room, $5,500 house which he finished last month for Herbert Jacobs, a newspaperman...
...Oak Park, 111. shoe Storekeeper Sam Ragalie boasted to a customer that he had just saved $150 from gunmen by keeping it in a shoebox, not in his till. Few minutes later the customer returned with a pistol, demanded and was given the shoebox...