The University of Chicago Biographical Sketches, Volume 1University of Chicago Press, 1924 |
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Page 81 - The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
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Page 366 - To Morris K. Jesup, more than to any other one man, is due the fact that the North Pole is today a trophy of this country." His biographer, William Adams Brown, gives a summary of the official positions he held which indicates the wideness of his sympathies and the scope of his philanthropic activities : He was president of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, a position to which he was elected in 1899 and which he held until a few months before his death.
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Page 138 - Bohemian mission in the carriage of one of its founders, we passed a fine old house standing well back from the street, surrounded on three sides by a broad piazza, which was supported by wooden pillars of exceptionally pure Corinthian design and proportion. I was so attracted by the house that I set forth to visit it the very next day, but though I searched for it then and for several days after, I could not find it, and at length I most reluctantly gave up the search.
Page 26 - He built himself up on no man's ruin, and his business methods, from the beginning to the end, were so instructive and influential that his fellowcitizens were constantly helped by his example. These methods, by their conspicuously high standards, became contributions to the citizenship of Chicago.
Page 216 - It can only authorize the establishment of high schools of the character of free schools whereby all the children of the State may receive a good common school education.
Page 55 - If your sons are healthy and willing to work, they will find enough to do, and if they cannot begin at the top let them begin at the bottom, and very likely they will be all the better for it.