Word: careered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...during the War. The fact is that Dr. Jordan, Cornell '72, was honored three decades before the War, in 1886, the same year as Andrew Dickson White, who helped Ezra Cornell found Cornell. Their university gave no honorary degrees between 1886 and the Jordan pacifism. Very early in its career Cornell University looked around and observed that giving honorary degrees was for the most part playing charades. Early in its career Cornell vowed: no more charades...
...first base and G. E. Abbot '17 complete the quintet of captains who will start the game. The latter never really led a team in action because the year for which he had been chosen captain found the War interrupting intercollegiate athletics and closing his college baseball career...
Monsieur Danguy has been coach of the University fencing team since 1921, and has turned out several championship aggregations. His career has been a long and colorful one. After serving in the French army, Danguy graduated as a master at Joinville-le-Pont, and then taught, fencing for several years at the College of Rollen at Paris...
Indeed, it would seem that Professor Rogers should have directed his remarks not to the boys at the Massachusetts Tech, but to their parents. The latter will take a lot of converting before they consent to see their gilded youth start out on a career of extravagance and bumptiousness. It may even be the case that a purse-proud father would not be entirely happy to see his daughter become engaged to a snob of the purest water. If he had to make his choice between the two authorities, the chances are that he would prefer Thackeray to Professor Rogers...
...chain, the Cleveland Press, Norman Edward Mack, a Canadian country boy who had learned about advertising in Chicago, was establishing the Times in Buffalo. At first it was a Sunday paper only. In 1883, he made it a daily. It served him well, and he it, during a career of which the high mark was the Mack chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee (1908). Upon selling out to Scripps-Howard, Mr. Mack, now 70, has retired...