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Long an invalid, retired in 1916 from his 22-year presidency and three-year chancellorship, 80-year-old Dr. David Starr Jordan, chancellor emeritus, had no active part in Stanford's latter-day development. Yet when the Stanford trustees meet this week, they and Stanford's Grand Old Man will all know that the important business before the meeting, a major milestone in Stanford's history, not only rests upon the foundations of Stanford as Dr. Jordan built it but derives from a conception of Stanford's destiny which Dr. Jordan long ago passed on to his successors for execution...
Children of California. Native of Gainesville, N. Y., Cornell graduate (1872), robustious baseball player (he broke his nose at it), studious teacher of Zoology, David Starr Jordan became president in 1885 of Indiana University at Bloomington, Ind. Aged 34, he was then Youngest U. S. College President. He began at once to reorganize his inland, politically controlled institution, to cajole dollars from lackadaisical Indiana legislators. He put in practice a then radical notion: to mold education to the student rather than to force the student into a tight educational jacket...
...next 16 years, quarreling with and leaving him when she married again. Thereafter no star, once wedded, could shine in the Belasco firmament. The suggestion of ruptured romance between Actress Carter and Producer Belasco helped the latter's legend. Successively he discovered, developed, dropped Blanche Bates, Frances Starr, Ina Claire, Lenore Ulrich. Leo Dietrichstein and David Warfield also owe their careers to Producer Belasco. As carefully as he cultivated his famed Anglican clerical costume,* Producer Belasco fostered the properties, attitudes, legends which identified him. At times he was apt to croon about himself and his profession...
Surprised, theatre folk waited to see if Helen Gahagan would be starred in another Belasco play, for tradition dictates that any Belasco leading lady who marries, automatically leaves his service. Examples: Leslie Carter, Blanche Bates, Frances Starr, Katharine Cornell, Mary Ellis, Lenore Ulric...
...Swan," and "The Last of Mrs. Cheyney." Previous to her residence in Cambridge, she acted with Sothern and Marlowe in Shakespearean repertoire, and subsequently appeared in the Stagers' New York revival of W.S. Gilbert's comedy, "Engaged." She has also appeared in Belasco productions in support of Frances Starr, and played for a season opposite Lionel Barrymore in "Laugh, Clown, Laugh." She is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and later took a Master's Degree at Radcliffe...