Word: careered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would seem that only blue stocking prejudice could turn a deaf ear to the wonderful possibilities of such a step. That same blue stocking prejudice has been responsible for whatever has been bad in the history of the theatre. The bigoted attitude which has looked upon a stage career as the shortest route to the everlasting bonfire has foatered immorality and low standards...
...information an inaccessible Dean, a system of Senior advisers obviously imperfect. The need is urgent for some in situation which shall not make new demands on Freshman time, but which will disseminate a comprehensive mass of useful information, general and specific, to each man before he undertakes his Harvard career...
...resignation of Professor Hans Carl Gunther von Jagemann brings to an end with the current academic year an active teacher's career of 41 years, of which 36 will have been spent in the service of Harvard University. Throughout this period Dr. von Jagemann has devoted himself especially to Germanic Philology, and though at the beginning of his sojourn among us he did no little work in the German language and literature, he has of late given no courses which undergraduates are usually prepared to take. Upon graduate students, on the other hand, he has exerted strong influence, not merely...
...Author. John P. Marqu has followed the usual formula becoming a U. S. novelist. Graduated by Harvard in 1915, he tried jour ism with the Boston Transcript The New York Tribune. After a War career, he tried advertising. He found ''copy" easy to write but difficult take seriously, so he fled Manhattan, turned to writing novels...
John R. Freeman of Providence, consulting engineer and expert on hydraulics, sketched the career of a fellow engineer, witnessed the affection of other engineers for this particular member. Ralph Budd, President of the Great Northern R. R.. lauded the laying out of that road, the planning and organization of the Panama Canal. Roland S. Morris, onetime (1917-21) U. S. Ambassador to Japan, extolled the administration of the Trans-Siberian Railway during the War. Then French, Chinese and Japanese Ambassadors, Mr. Chief Justice Taft, Elihu Root. Robert Lansing and many another had sent complimentary telegrams, letters...