Word: willards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CITY OF THE SACRED WELL -T. A. Willard-Century ($4). Here is the story, told by an intimate friend, of Edward Herbert Thompson - "Don Eduardo", as they call him in Yucatan-to whom is credited the bulk of modern archeological knowledge of the great Mayan civilizations. Reading explorers' books as a boy in snug New England, he connected himself with the Peabody Museum and the American Antiquarian Society, which obtained him the first U. S. consulship in Yucatan and opportunity to devote most of his life to baring the secrets of Chichen Itza, the Mayan capital. Besides constituting...
...Willard was elected last week, after twelve years on the Johns Hopkins board and three years as mainspring of a committee that has raised some six millions to expand and endow the Johns Hopkins hospital and medi-cal school. Now he will be, with President Goodnow, the mainspring by which Johns Hopkins means to eliminate its elementary instruction, reorganize itself on its original lines of advanced and research work (TIME, March 8) and raise six more millions to finance the change...
They say that Daniel Willard's mind proceeds like one of his express trains-from start to destination without local stops. It must have run that way always. Born on a Vermont farm, he won a teacher's certificate before he was 16 and taught while finishing high school. Lacking funds to go to Dartmouth, he made the most of the Massachusetts Agricultural College-made too much of it, wore out his eyes. He got a track laborer's job with the idea of rising to the throttle of a locomotive, which he did in two years...
...rides constantly on his own trains, studies them, studies commuters, calls his private car his "business" car. "There is nothing more important than accuracy," says Daniel Willard. His eyes flash, his slim figure, almost boyish 'at 65, straightens. He adds, "There is romance in this business...
...Harvard Fund Council-not a "drive" organization but a permanent institution through which Harvard alumni will contribute annually in small amounts to the university's development and support- is a railroader of the same gauge, action, power. His career, except for an engineering course at Harvard, parallels Mr. Willard's closely-a New England parentage, ground-training in the Midwest, the presidency of the Northern Pacific at 42 (1903). In 1913 he accepted the task of rehabilitating the New York, New Haven & Hartford, but had to resign after four years. Recovering, he worked under Mr. Willard...