Princeton's New President and the Battle over Club Power
President Wilson pursues reforms at Princeton, introducing a department based curriculum and the preceptorial system to democratize education. Alumni clubs on Prospect Avenue resist, triggering a historic clash between democracy and aristocratic privilege that splits trustees, faculty, and alumni.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Princeton University
Princeton
America
Wilson
University
Hirot
Harvard
Alan
R. Wilson
Prospect Avenue
Ivy
Cap
Colonial
Tiger Inn
American College
MovingPictures News And Odd Local Notes
A bite sized reel of items includes a fire company of women in Poughkeepsie a Paris fad of gold heels a voiceless suffragette speech on Fifth Avenue a Pittsburgh preacher feud over baths and a vivid dog on stage at the Grotto theater in Reidsville N C where the dog tore the screen. Also a recipe for Chicken Pie With Cream Crust detailing disjointed chicken preparation and a bay leaf scented gravy.
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Poughkeepsie
Paris
Pittsburgh
Grotto Theater
Reidsville
N. C
Joyce
Farmer's Wife Almost a Wreck in Maryland
Mrs John F Richards of Westwood Maryland reports months of nervous spells weakness and bearin down pains with right side inflammation and regular illness. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for her recovery and invites other women to write for confidential advice from the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John F. Richards
Westwood
Maryland
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia E.pinkham
Carnegie Leads Givers in 12 Year Benefactions
Carnegie leads a list of donors marking year 12 with gifts to fund an army and navy for one year. Total twelve-year contributions would distribute 92 cents to every person on Earth.
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Carnegie
Army
Navy
G'Vers of $1,000,000 or Over During 1912
Report lists individuals and firms with gross earnings of one million dollars or more for the calendar year 1912, highlighting notable high earners and economic activity across sectors. The document emphasizes total sums and year context.
Major 1912 Benefactions Highlight Education and Philanthropy
The 1912 gifts total roughly 327 million dollars with 302 million from amounts of 10 000 or more and another 25 million in smaller donations Educational causes led the distribution followed by hospitals aged care and religious enterprises Andrew Carnegie led giving placing most wealth into the Carnegie Corporation and foundations J P Morgan donated art treasures and museum support while the Bell Telephone company set up a 10 million pension fund Rockefeller’s gifts waned after 1910 and 1911 timing with about 3 million in the past year
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England
Bank of England
Imperial Bank of Germany
New York
United States
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Carnegie
Carnegie Foundation For the Advancement of Teaching
Carnegie Technical Schools
Yale Forest School
New York City
University of Denver
University of Vermont
Western College of Ohio
Albion College
Pacific University
Wells College
Shurtleff College
Ures
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Morgan
Trinity College
Peabody College
General Convention
Protestant Episcopal Church
University of Gottingen
Germany
London Y
Notice of Estate Final Report and Distribution Hearing
Mollie Seastrand administratrix of Charles Seastrand deceased has filed a final report and petition for distribution. The Superior Court Chehalis County fixes February 15 1913 at the Montesano courthouse for the hearing. Objections must be filed with the Clerk prior to the date. First publication January 9 1913 last February 6 1913.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Superior Court
State of Washington
Chehalis
Charles Seastrand
Mollie Seastrand
Montesano
Washington
Aberdeen
Ben Sheers
Show Cause Order in Townsend Minor Guardianship Case
Washington state Chehalis County order to show cause dated February 22 1913 fixes hearing at Montesano court house to consider guardian Albert A Townsend's petition to sell minor Eloise Townsend's interest in Lot 2 Block 1 Samuel Benns First Addition Aberdeen cash sale.
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State OF Washington
Chehalis County
Eloise Townsend
Frederick A. Townsend
Albert A. Townsend
Washington
Towit
Samuel Benn
Hearing Set On Final Report In Seastrand Estate
The court schedules February 15, 1918, in Montesano Washington, for the administratrix to be heard on the final report and petition for distribution. Notices must run four weeks in Aberdeen newspapers and be posted in three public places for four weeks, with dates of January 7 and February 6, 1913, cited.
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American Press Association
Ness
Ans
Mr. and
Mrs. Wilson
Woodrow Wilson
White House
Bell Telephone System
THE
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph CO
Gooborp E
J Pierpont Morgan
C.co
Bell Telephone Co
Robert Carson
Captain John Martin
P A. B Widener
John OD Rockefeller
Richard ‘T Cane
F. Ryan
George F Baker
Henry F Limock
Caroline Neustadt
Rockefeller, Jr
Russel
Sage Eee
E Fl Harriman
Calvary Morris
Francis J. Leland
Edward Jackson
Sears, Roebuck & Co
Mary Packer Cummings
L. P. Morton
Edwin Bancroft Foote
D. M. Farson
Teeee
Marshall O. Terry
William Hall Penfold Seee
Cornelia Storrs
Sebastian de Lawrence
Henry Iden
Flora BE Isham
Gen T. Coleman du Pont
Morris Loeb
Carnegie Benefactions
J. P. Morgan
Art
Fred Hewitt
Aberdeen Herald
C. H
A. K. Mayberry
Mayberry Bros
C. H. Mayberry
Wash
Municipal Free Employment Bureau
Wishkah
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