Word: careered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undergraduate who plans to follow a scientific career, such as engineering in one of its many fields, will be well advised to prepare himself while in college for the studies of the engineering school. By wise planning, and without interfering with the attainment of a liberal education, he can thus avoid the unnecessary and irksome prolongation of professional studies beyond the age when he should begin the practical part of his career. It is desirable to continue the study of mathematics through the calculus, to take a course in general physics, one in chemistry, and in some cases a course...
...hold up the mighty advance of the German military machine. Marshal Ferdinand Foch has written of French: "In him Great Britain found a grand soldier. He kept his troops up to the level of Wellington." John Denton Pinkstone French was born in Kent of Irish parents. He began his career at an early age by joining the Navy, in which his father was a captain. Four years later, he transferred to the Army, joined the 19th Hussars. He rose steadily to the rank of a colonel, retired at the age of 41, an officer without distinction. He was fished...
...quoth Jacob Epstein, "American-born Polish Jew." Now a man of 45, he has had a stormy career...
Despite the thunderheads of feeling which have enveloped him during his remarkable career, the dispassionate observer has seen him as a just man and an individualist who has had the courage to follow his firm convictions. Like the misunderstood and, therefore, the much reviled Trimmers of the 17th Century, he has often championed the weaker and discredited side. His services have often gone to the poor and the unfortunate, while he has not infrequently bettered the example of Abraham Lincoln by actually pleading the cause of a guilty man in order that the law, intimidated by the howls...
Bishop Brent, who is an Overseer of the University and a member of the Overseers' Committee to Visit the Chapel, has had a notable career in church and national affairs. After being connected with St. Paul's Cathedral in Buffalo, he came to the Church of St. John the Evangelist in Boston in 1880. In 1901 he became Associate Rector of St. Stephen's. Bishop Brent then became Bishop of the Philippine Islands for a number of years. He was twice elected Bishop of Washington and once Bishop of New Jersey, both of which bishoprics he declined to accept...