Word: becket
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arthur Becket Lamb, since 1925 Sheldon Emery, Professor of Organic Chemistry, has been elected to the chair of Erving Professor of Chemistry. He has been Director of the Harvard Chemistry Laboratory since 1912 and has just assumed charge of the recently completed Mallinckrodt and Converse Laboratories. The Erving Professorship has been previously held by six professors, the last of whom was the late Theodore William Richards. James Bryant Conant '14, succeeds Professor Lamb as Sheldon Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry...
...Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram, Bishop of London. Potent have been the Archbishops of Canterbury in English history. Augustine (597-605) established Christianity in England. Bertha, queen of the fourth Saxon king of Kent, Aethelbert, was already a Christian and gave Augustine a church at Canterbury, then a seaport. Thomas Becket (1162-70), warrior-bishop, first helped Henry II subordinate Church to State. But when he became Archbishop of Canterbury he fought for Church against State. Courtiers foully murdered and mangled him on the very steps of his altar and Henry II did an abject penance. Stephen Langton (1207-22) persuaded...
Singles B. H. Whitbock '29 defeated Levin (C), 6-3, 6-1; M. T. Hill '30 defeated Becket (C), 6-4, 6-2; J. H. Appleton '29 defeated Hulstend (C), 3-6, -3, 6-3; Custer (C) defeated Arthur Ingraham Jr. '30, 6-3, 6-4; Runey (C) defeated C. R. Hamlen '30, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, F. B. Ward '30 defeated Diet rich...
Doubles Hill and F. K. Trask Jr. '30 defeated Becket and Dietrich (C), 6-2, 6-2; Whitbock and Ward defeated Levin and Halstead (C), 6-0, 6-3. Hamleu and Ingraham defeated Runey and Custer...
...example of one of the few attempts of Tennyson at drama is also to be found. His play "Becket" was originally intended to be acted out only by one of his great actor friends. It became so popular, however, that it was soon published in book form for the public...