Word: schurman
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Jacob Gould Schurman, longtime (1892-1920) president of Cornell, one-time (1925-29) Ambassador to Germany, turned over the new $500,000 University Hall to the University of Heidelberg, where he was once a student. The building, for which Mr. Schurman collected the money, is made of white stone, stands at one side of University Platz, contains an elaborate "senate" room. It is the gift of 37 Americans in recognition of "Heidelberg's helpful service to our culture, science and civilization." Donors whose names were inscribed in a marble tablet included: John Davison Rockefeller Jr., James Speyer, Paul Moritz Warburg...
Died. George Wellington Schurman, 63, senior member of Hughes, Schurman & Dwight (Charles Evans Hughes), brother of Jacob Gould Schurman (onetime U. S. Ambassador to Germany); of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
Married. Elizabeth Evans Hughes' daughter of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes; and William Thomas Gossett, Manhattan lawyer in the employ of Hughes, Schurman. & Dwight; at the Hughes home in Washington, D. C. Married. Clarenore Stinnes, 29, daughter of the late Hugo Stinnes. German coal, iron, steel, shipping & press tycoon; and Axel Soderstrom, 36, Swedish cinema producer, her companion last year on a round-the-world-motor trip; in London. Married. John Ringling art collector, railroad man, head of Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus, last of the five brothers; and a Mrs. Emily Haag Buck of Manhattan; in Jersey City...
Barbara Munro Schurman, 65, relict of the late Jacob Gould Schurman, onetime (1892-1920) president of Cornell University, onetime (1925-29) Ambassador to Germany; of pneumonia; in Bedford...
...record in support of edu-cation." The first week in April, Cornellmen all over the U. S. and Canada were solicited for alma mater in a campaign patterned after the Red Cross roll-call. Over the radio went the voices of longtime (1892-1920) President Jacob Gould Schurman, President Livingston Farrand and Myron Charles Taylor, Class of 1894, chairman of U. S. Steel Corp.'s finance committee. Campaigners strove to overpass Yale's record for alumni subscribers (9,493) made in 1928. Cornell results: total subscribers for year ending June 30: 10,134. Total gifts for year...