Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...months ago Bishop Lawrence, describing the work of the Harvard Corporation, mentioned the fact that when a man connected with the University dies, no resolution concerning his death is passed, and no account is given of the services which he has rendered. The President merely informs the Corporation of the death of the instructor, or professor, or overseer; it makes no difference whether he gave millions of dollars to Harvard or conducted a section in History 1. The recognition which he receives from the Corporation after his death is the same. That, said Bishop Lawrence, is Harvard democracy...
After two postponements on account of wet grounds, the Harvard and Yale polo teams are scheduled to meet on the Westchester-Biltmore Country Club field in Rye, N. Y., this afternoon...
...game scheduled to be played in Cambridge yesterday between the two freshman outfits was definitely cancelled on account of bad weather...
...Washington, the party chosen to board the Coolidge Special for Brule grew to 60, to 80, to 90. The total number included newsgatherers and camera men, but did not account for Rob Roy (white collie), Terrible Tim (red chow), Diana (white collie), Bessie (yellow collie), King Cole (black police dog) and the five White House canaries, all of whom were going...
...model qualities of Greek and Gregorian music. Since 1918, he has directed the Florence Conservatory. In Florence he lives now in almost ratlike retirement. His wife, a descendant of Stradivarius, is dead. He likes quiet and hates traveling; he was made sorrowful before the War when his enemies, on account of his "revolutionary" music, made him the object of belligerent slander. His most famed work previous to Fra Gherardo was Debora e Jaele, an opera about a Hebrew prophetess in which, as in the more recent work, Pizzetti made frequent use of a crowded stage and made his score...