Word: benedict
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Guillermo, 20, and Fernando, 19, sons of Mexico's President Pascual Ortiz Rubio, went to Atchison, Kan. to become students at St. Benedict's College...
Died. Vincenzo Cardinal Vannutelli, 93, since 1915 Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals, thrice mentioned for the Papacy (at the conclaves which elected Pius X in 1903, Benedict XV in 1914, Pius XI in 1922); Papal legate to Eucharistic Congresses at London in 1908, at Montreal in 1910 (after which he toured the U. S., was the guest of President Taft); on many occasions a Papal representative, envoy, nuncio, or internuncio (among them: coronation of Tsar Alexander III of Russia in 1881, at Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee); great & good friend of the U. S. (said he: "America...
Before dawn on May 10, 1775, Ethan Allen, Revolutionary irregular, led 83 soldiers, mostly Green Mountain Boys of his own recruiting, across Lake Champlain. On the way Allen and Benedict Arnold wrangled profanely as to who was to command. They landed under the Grenadiers' Battery at Fort Ticonderoga. As the clear sky reddened into the day the American troopers, drawn up in three ranks, marched up to the British fort's sally port. The red-coated sentinel's fusee missed fire. The invaders pushed headlong and shouting into the walled parade ground...
William Harris Cary '21, of New Canaan, Connecticut, will return to Harvard next September to take the position of assistant dean of the College, filling the vacancy left by Assistant Dean George Grenville Benedict '23, who is to teach English at Phillips Andover next year. Cary will be the dean in charge of the Sophomores, as is Benedict at the present time...
...Benedict, who graduated from the College in 1923, returned to Harvard in 1926 as a graduate student in English, and as assistant in the records office in the following year he became dean of records, a position which he held for two years...