Word: careered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cynicism about politics is natural," said Professor A. N. Holcombe '06 in a lecture last night at the banquet of Delta Sigma Rho, the national honorary debating fraternity. Professor Holcombe was discussing various aspects of politics as a career...
Warning his hearers that he was a professor wound up to go 53 minutes whenever started, Professor Holcombe told first of certain obstacles to a political career. "I believe every man should take part in politics some time during his career," he said. "But he should not make political success the biggest thing in his life. Success in politics is too accidental...
...mark, but since his field happened to be religious rather than political, there is much less popular knowledge concerning him. It may therefore, be worthy of note that he became rector of Trinity Church, Boston--in front of which his statue now stands--in 1869, after an active career of vigorous, successful preaching, particularly during the Civil War. In 1881, he declined an invitation to become the sole preacher and professor of Christian ethics at Harvard, but for a long time he exerted a deep influence upon the religious life of the University--a greater influence, probably, than anyone else...
With the unemotional conciseness of a consular report, this book gives the record of his amazingly versatile and far-flung career. An early passion for travel sent him to Tunis; he was meditating a trip to central Asia when one of those remarkable accidents which seemed always to be happening to intelligent and well-connected young Englishmen 40 years ago diverted him to the west coast of Africa, with a letter to Explorer Stanley in his pocket...
Among the prominents listed as backers is George Bernard Shaw. One scarcely thinks of the satirical Irishman-Englishman as a patron, but it will be recalled that early in his career he functioned as a music critic. And one of his first successful books was The Perfect Wagnerite with its characteristically Shavian appreciations of the music of the great Richard...