Educators Protest Carnegie Foundation Admission Debate
A heated exchange followed reports that the Carnegie Foundation threatened to bar Columbia and New York University over lax admission standards. President Butler and others denied any such action, noting no university had been warned and stressing ongoing cooperation. The case centers on varying standards at Harvard Yale Columbia and NYU and the definition of deficient entrants.
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John G. Bowman
Carnegie Foundation For the Advancement of Teaching
Columbia
New York University
Gie Foundation
Inter
Peyon
Pritchett
Nicholas
Hias
Foundation
Carnegie Foundation
Yale
Harvard
New York U University
Miss Addams Elected Head of National Charities Conference
Miss Jane Addams of Hull House Chicago is elected president of the National Conference of Charities and Correction for 1916 in a unanimous vote. Other officers named include F. H. Nibecker Glen Mills Penn second vice president Ainsley Wilcox Buffalo and Judge William H. De Lacy Washington as third vice president. A wide group of executives and a rolling critique of immigration and policing practices follow, with speakers such as Gino C. Speranza and Emanuel Levine urging reform and government supervision.
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Buffalo
Jane Addams
Hull House
Chicago
National Conference of Charities and Correction
F. H. Nibecker
Glen Mills
Penn
Ainsley Wilcox
William H. de Lacy
Washington
Gga
Alexander Johnson
Fort Wayne
Chetwynd Divorce Granted in London Court
Rosamoné Chetwynd, daughter of New York’s Charles Recor, is granted a divorce from George Guy Chetwynd on grounds of misconduct. Custody of their child awarded to Rosamoné. couple wed in 1902. London decree restores conjugal rights for the husband only.
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London
Rosamoné Chetwynd
Charles Recor
New York
George Guy Chetwynd
Chet- Wpm
George Chet
Chetwynd
Class Day at Princeton Sees Outdoor Exercises and Gifts
Princeton N J June 14 1869 bright skies enabled outdoor class day exercises with a large national crowd. Phi Beta Kappa Cliosophic and American Whig societies met. the 1869 class replaced a stone from the old chapel. Graduation exercises are set for tomorrow as trustees held their 1624 commencement meeting with Governor Fort present. The sword of General John Beatty was presented to the university. Gifts totaled 14522100 with 1900000 from Mrs William Earl Dodge's estate. Faculty changes included Adams to physics professorship Eisenhart to mathematics and Ellicott to politics.
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Princeton
N. J
Phi Beta Kappa Society
Cliosophic
American Whig Societies
Board of Trustees
Governor Fort
John Beatty
William R. Barrickle
William Earl Dodge
New York
Edwin P. Adams
Luther P. Eisenhart
Edward G. Ellicott
New York Law School Commencement at Carnegie Hall
The New York Law School will hold commencement exercises at Carnegie Hall on 57th Street and Seventh Avenue Thursday evening. Dean Professor George Chase will preside and Justice Clarke of the Appellate Division is to address the graduates.
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New York Law School
Carnegie Hall Music Chamber
57Th Street
Seventh Avenue
George Chase
Justice Clarke
Appellate Division
Commencement at Packer Institute in Brooklyn
The Packer Collegiate Institute held its annual commencement. Forty graduates received diplomas as parents and friends filled the chapel. Rev Marion Le Roy Burton offered the opening prayer. Miss Alice M Cordier gave the valedictory. The program featured readings by Anna B Longenecker Louise S Miller Marion Hardy Helen M Sperry and Grace M Allen.
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Packer Collegiate Institute of
Brooklyn
Marion le Roy Burton
Church of the Pilgrims
Alice M. Cordier
Anna B. Longenecker
Louise S. Miller
Marion Hardy
William Blake
Helen M. Sperry
Grace M. Allen
Follies of 1909 a Success at Jardin de Paris
The summer season opened with Follies of 1909 at the Jardin de Paris atop the New York Theatre. Nora Bayes led a strong bill including Jack Norworth and Miss Bayes with a sizable celebrity audience in a two act thirteen scene revue featuring aerial devices and songs, with notable toe dancing by Miss Clayton and a favorable verdict on the performers and production.
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Jardin de Paris
New York Theatre
Nora Bayes
Venus
Metropolitan Opera House
Tallian Lorraine
Miss Baves
Jack Norworth
Miss Bayes
Harry Kelsey
Arthur Deagon
William Bennelli
Billy Reeves
Mac Murray
Annabelle Whitford
Bessie Clayton
Stage Director Recovers 20900 From Estate of Kirke La Shelle
The jury in the suit by John Stapleton, stage director for Kirke La Shelle, returned a sealed verdict awarding Stapleton $20,900 for work on The Virginian and Checkers. This is the second trial. a previous verdict of $8,000 was set aside by mutual consent.
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John Stapleton
Kirke la Shelle
Stapleton
London Weddings Feature Noted News Figures
Roy W. Howard, United Press news manager, weds Margaret Roche at St George's Chapel London. Separate notes of Gertrude Whitney and Julius Nettl wedding in Grace Church chantry, and Ed ward Lederer's marriage to Madeline inchor after a Criminal Courts Building adjournment.
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London
Roy W. Howard
United Press
New York
St. George's Chapel
Margaret Roche
Gertrude Floy Whitney
Julius Charles Nettl
Buffalo
Grace Church Chantry
Karl Reiland
Emma Daniels
Arthur T. Neid
Mary M. Joyce
West 12Th Street
Supreme Court
Criminal Courts
Belmont
Edward Lederer
Madeline
Lederer
Justice Guy
Miss Pinchot
Judge Pinchot
Court of Common Pleas of
Pennsylvania
Milford
Penn
President Penna Dead After Illness in Brazil
Rio de Janeiro report states Dr Alfonso Moreira Penna, president of Brazil, died today after influenza illness that began June 2. He had shown brief improvement but relapsed. He directed wartime shipbuilding in Brazil and earlier built the Andrew Johnson for the Great Lakes. Survived by wife, three sons, three daughters. burial in Woodlawn Cemetery.
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Rio de Janeiro
Dpr
Alfonso Moreira Penna
Brazil
Jane
West Streets
Andrew Johnson
Great Lakes
Gray
Methodist Church
Union Methodist Episcopal Church
48Th Street
Broadway
Woodlawn
Brazil P resident Penna dies after illness
Marked pulmonary and gastric symptoms preceded a hopeless prognosis. The Minister of the Interior notified the Vice President Nilo Pecanha and others. Penna died at 7 30 this morning after hours of unconsciousness. The Vice President assumed executive powers as ministers and lawmakers attended. Resignations followed but delays in withdrawal were agreed. Funeral set for Wednesday. Penna, born November 30 1847 in Santa Barbara Minas Geraes, helped found Belo Horizonte. He held multiple posts including Minister of War Agriculture and Justice, and was elected president in 1896. Survived by wife four daughters and at least one son. Analysts predicted Pecanha would finish the term, with Hermes Fonseca a leading but military candidate option.
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The
Republic
Nilo Pecanha
Dr. Penna
Santa Barbara
Minas Geraes
Bello Horizonte
Caraca College
Sao Paulo
Rodrigues Alves
TRI4
San Paulo
Penna
Tom Pedro
Bank of the Republic
Senate
Dr. Farration
Argentina
Mme. Veiga
Fenna
Brazil
Vasco Abreu
Rio de Janeiro
Peppa
Abreu
Hermes Fonseca
General Fonseca
Fonseca
Germany
William
Brooklyn Political Leader Cabble Dies at 58
Cabble prominent in Brooklyn Republican circles and long time mayoral campaign manager for Seth Low in 1881 and 1888 died at his Brooklyn home on Madison Street. He led the William Cabble Excelsior Wire Manufacturing Co. and held positions with several civic and religious bodies. Funeral tomorrow at his home with burial in Cypress Hills Cemetery.
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Cabble
Seth Low
Brooklyn
Madison Street
William Cabble
Independent Order of Odd Fellows
Union League Club
Stuyvesant Heights Republican Club
Belle Harbor
Drummer Boy of Missionary Ridge Dead in Toledo
General John Kountz former commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic has died in Toledo at age after long illness from Brights disease. He joined the 87th Ohio as a boy of fifteen and earned the title drummer boy for Missionary Ridge after losing a leg in the charge. As leader in 1884 he and General Rosecrans secured papal action freeing the GAR from a religious ban.
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Toledo
John
Kountz
Grand Army of the Republic
Bright
87Th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Kouitz
Grand Army
Missionary Ridge
Kate Brownlee Sherwood
Rosecrans
Konitz
Robert J Gray Dies After Illness At 83 In Lenox Avenue Home
Robert J Gray a veteran iron manufacturer died of pneumonia at his Lenox avenue home on a Saturday night at age eighty three. He fell ill after taking ill health while going to church on June 6 and had spent most of his life in the city building a large iron manufacturing business.
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Robert J. Gray
Lenox Avenue
Mr. Gray
Boston Lawyer Benjamin L. M. Tower Dies at 76
Boston report records the death of Benjamin L. M. Tower a leading Suffolk bar member from the firm Tower Talbot Hiller in Boston He was born in Cohasset in 1848 and is survived by a wife and four children.
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Boston
Benjamin L. M. Tower
Suffolk Bar
Tower, Talbot & Hiller
Tower
Cohasset
Death of Dr B L Wiggins Vice-Chancellor S U South
Sewanee Tenn June 14 Dr B L Wiggins vice chancellor of the University of the South died late today from heart disease. He spent his life connected with the university and held degrees from the University of the South Trinity College St Johns Annapolis and South Carolina College. He became professor of Greek in 1882 and vice chancellor in 1893. He was a member of the American Philological and American Historical Associations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sewanee, Tenn
B. L. Wiggins
University of the South
Dr. Wiggins
Sand Ridge
S. C
Trinity College
Hartford
Obituary notes for John Paul and James Roosa
John Paul, 75, prominent Wisconsin lumberman and Florida timber company head, dies in Watertown Fila. James F Roosa, banker and Civil War veteran, dies at home in Middletown N C, leaving son Philip G Roosa chief clerk to the State Prison Commission.
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John Paul
Wisconsin
Florida Timber
Watertown
Fila
James F. Roosa
Middletown
N. C
Philip G. Roosa
State Prison Commission
Tribune’s Attitude Praised to Editor Letter
William N Johnson of New York writes praising The Tribune editorial on economy and pension reform. He urges Congress to end general and private Civil War pensions, warns of a July 1 national deficit, and laments widows’ pension parity for marriages after 1890. He calls for sober citizen judgment over popular demand.
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the Tribune
3D Inst
Senate
Supreme Court
Congress
William N. Johnson
New York
Physicians and Clergymen paper correction note
A. L. Benedict replies to an Atlantic City academy abstract about Congregational Practice. He argues contract practice should be avoided in medicine, advocates broader duties for doctors including hygiene, sanitation, medical charity, and long term welfare oversight similar to clergy. Buffalo, June 11, 1999.
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the Tribune
American Academy of Medicine
Atlantic City
Academy
Buffalo
A. L. Benedict
Christianity's Progress in Africa at Missionary Union Meet
Clifton Springs N Y June 14 The International Missionary Union delegates discussed Africa and the Mahometan world. Speakers included Rev W B Anderson of the United Presbyterian Board Miss Gertrude R Hance with twenty eight years in South Africa Miss Lydia S Ing on Central Africa and Miss Martha E Price on Natal education Mrs John B Broadhead on girls school work in South Africa The conference elected Rev J T Gracey president Rev J S Stone vice president Mrs H J Bostick secretary and Rev C R Merritt treasurer.
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Clifton Springs
N. Y
Africa
International Missionary Union
W. B. Anderson
United Presbyterian Board
Gertrude R. Hance
South Africa
Lydia S. Ing
Central Africa
Martha E. Price
Natal
John B. Broadhead
J. T. Gracey
J. S. Stone
H. J. Bostick
C. R. Merritt
Weather Report Forecast for Lake Region and States
Official record shows barometric pressure rising in the lake region and Ohio Valley with generally fair weather in the last 24 hours. Local rains and thunderstorms occurred in Atlantic and Gulf states, Tennessee and Arkansas. Forecast calls for fair conditions in many regions with cooler spells and scattered showers in the Rockies and plains.
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Washington
Lake Region
Ohio Valley
Middle West
Plains States
Northwest
Atlantic States
Gulf States
Tennessee
Arkansas
Rocky Mountain
Rocky Mountains
Lower Lake Region
Ohio
Middle Eee
Upper Lake Region
Northwestern States
Middle Atlantic
North Atlantic
Mississippi
Missouri
South Atlantic
Virginia
Weather Bureau
Dense dinner for B'rith Abraham marks fiftieth anniversary
A large crowd attended last night’s celebration of the Order B'rith Abraham’s fiftieth anniversary. Speakers included Congressmen Goldfogle and Kahn, Judge Bloch, and Coroner Harburger, while Governor Hughes sent regrets. Delegates from 159 lodges gathered at the New Star Casino for day sessions. Grand Master Samuel Dorf was tipped to win a seventeenth term.
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Order
B'rith Abraham
Jerome
Julius Harburger
Samuel Dorf
The
Congressman Goldfogle
Mr. Dorf
Brrith Abraham
Julius Kahn
San Francisco
Empire State
New York
Bertha Dorf
Bernard Drachman
Goldfogle
Bennet and
Kahn
Justice Delehanty
Harburger
Samuel Strauss
Joseph C. Bloch
Cleveland
Nathan Straus
Leonard Leisersohn
Samuel Stern
Albert Rosenthal
Hughes
New Star Casino
Dorf
Samuel Dorf Lodge
Baltimore
Sluzewo Eleazar Lodge
Zionist Parade Debuts In New York City Demonstration
Several thousand Zionists marched through East Side streets amid fireworks and banners while children joined and companies decorated buildings. The convention debated energy, education, and a Zionist curriculum with calls for Jewish public schooling in Boston. Junior Zionist membership reached twenty five hundred across thirty five New York circles, twenty in Philadelphia, and fifty outside.
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New York
East Side
Zion
Albert Hurwitz
Zionist Federation of
Boston
H. M. Callen
Harvard
Philadelphia
Professor Woolf's Anniversary at Reisenweber's
The fiftieth anniversary of Dr Solomon Woolf's graduation from the City College of New York was marked by a gathering of his classmates at Reisenweber's on Eighth avenue and 38th street. An oil painting by 8 J Woolf, a nephew and college graduate, was presented. President John H Finley attended among seventy five guests.
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Solomon Woolf
College of the City of New York
Reisenweber's
Eighth Avenue
38Th Street
J. Woolf
John H. Finley
Today’s events and exhibits around New York City
Free admission to the Metropolitan Museum of Art the American Museum of Natural History and the Zoological Garden. Pan Presbyterian Alliance convention at Fifth Ave Presbyterian Church at 2 p m. New York Electrical Society annual meeting and officer elections at Waldorf Astoria at 5 p m. Congressman Bennet speaks on The Value of note at West End Presbyterian Church at 5 p m. Young Women’s Christian Association summer school opens at No 7 East 15th Street at 5 p m. Federation of American Zionists dinner at Vienna Hall 58th Street and Lexington Avenue at 10 p m.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
American Museum of Natural History
Zoological Garden
Pan Presbyterian Alliance
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church
New York Electrical Society
Waldorf-Astoria
William S. Bennet
West End Presbyterian Church
Syp
Young Women's Christian Association
East 15Th Street
The
Federation of American Zionists
Vienna Hall
58Th Street
Lexington Avenue
Prominent Arrivals at Hotels Astor and Waldorf
Prominent arrivals listed include J H Kearney of Memphis at the Astor, E D Shaw of Washington, P H Wilkins of Oklahoma City, Edward Sperry of Richmond, R A Hunt of Providence, W F Estabrook of Chicago, Dr G R White of Savannah, W M Hough of St Louis, Samuel McRoberts of Chicago, and Mr and Mrs H V Painter of Cleveland at the St Regis.
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J. H. Kearney
Memphis
Breslin
E. D. Shaw
Washington
P H. Wilkins
Oklahoma City
Gotham
Edward Sperry
Richmond
Netherland
R. A. Hunt
Providence
W. F. Estabrook
Chicago
Park Avenue
G R. White
Savannah
Waldorf Astoria
W. M. Hough
St. Louis
Samuel Mc Roberts
ST. Regis
H. V. Painter
Cleveland
Preston Gibson's New Play Success at Belasco Theatre
Washington report states Preston Gibson's three act drama Success had its first production at the Belasco Theatre. The plot follows Thompson a Southern heir who loses his Virginia inheritance then becomes a Wall Street power, with romance and rivalry culminating in a satisfactory outcome. Cast includes Laura Burt and Ethel Grey Terry under Gibson's direction.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Preston Gibeson
Justice White
United States Supreme Court
New York
Virginia
Thompson
Wall Street
Virginis
Laura Burt
Mercella Esmonde
Ethel Grey Terry
Bell Howell Bohn
H. &. Norther
Marriage notices in THE TRIBUNE and Tri-Weekly tribulations
Died notices from June 1900s list Allen Crawford Edwards Gascoyne Gilmour Grant Gunther Haskell Lynch Olmstead Robertson Roosa Smith Starr Wood and others with funeral dates and addresses. Includes undertakers and florist notices. battle against sparse legible details.
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the Tribune
Tri-Weekly
Tribune
Uptown Tribune site offers aspirant applications for jobs
The New York Tribune announces a file of applications for various positions now available at the Uptown Office, 1364 Broadway between 36th and 38th Streets. Office hours are 9 a m to 6 p m for quick access by employers seeking desirable help.
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New-York Tribune
Broadway
Tribune Subscription Rates and Postage Details
The Tribune offers mail subscriptions within the United States and abroad with varying rates by period. Domestic daily and Sunday options include monthly and yearly plans, with additional foreign postage for Cuba Porto Rico Hawaii and the Philippines. Daily weekly and almanac options list specific three six and twelve month terms and per-copy rates.
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Mexico
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Bronx
Cuba
Porto Rico
Hawaii
Philippines
Tribune Almanac
New York City
Opening sessions Alliance of Reform and Presbyterian Churches
Religious notices list the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church at 5th and 6th streets opening sessions on Tuesday June 15, 1908. Afternoon at 2 features Rev Dr J D Moffat Rev Dr David James BU and Sir Samuel Chisholm Bart. Evening at 3 includes an address by the president of the Alliance Rev De bridge England Oswald Dykes. Open to the public.
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Sthave
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Samuel Chisholm
The
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Debridge
England
Oswald Dykes
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