Word: brett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clapper they have so often stolen. They ran their venerated "Flag of 1766" up the campus flagpole. Rutgers had a new president, after having had only an acting president since John Martin Thomas decided to go into life insurance (TIME, Nov. 10, 1930). Last week Acting President Philip Milledoler Brett signalized the end of his term by telephoning Rutgers new president, just elected: Robert Clarkson ("Bob") Clothier...
...Christened Francis Brett Hart, at 12 he dropped the t; 13 years before his father had added the e to Hart...
...Baltimore & Ohio Railroad told the Wharton School of Finance last week. Yet no criticism has been so definite in its statements, so sure in its suggestions, so alarming in the price it says will mark continued failure, as one set forth last week. Criticizer and suggester was Wallace Brett Donham, dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration at Harvard University. His views were set forth in a book called Business Adrift, to which Alfred North Whitehead, Harvard's topnotch philosopher, contributes an introduction "On Foresight...
...result of Acting President Brett's election was to settle the origin of "I'd die for dear old Rutgers." He was captain of the football team which played Princeton in 1892, the game in which the speech-long attributed to Captain Brett and various other members of the team -originated. Last week the Rutgers Alumni Association announced that credit for the brave words should be given to the late Frank Kingsley Grant, Class of 1895, who broke his leg while leading a flying wedge on the first kickoff. Prostrate upon the field, Footballer Grant philosophically remarked that...
...assuming office, said Acting President Brett: "I don't suppose I shall at tempt to initiate any new situations under the circumstances. My main purpose will be to attempt to preserve the integrity of the college as far as State issues are concerned...