Word: careering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...began his political career as Liberal M. P. for Reading; and under Premier Asquith (now Lord Oxford), became first Solicitor General with a knighthood, then Attorney General with a seat in the Cabinet-the first Attorney General to be so honored...
From 1912 onward, his career has been a succession of brilliant advances. In 1913, he succeeded Lord Alverstone as Lord Chief Justice; and at the outbreak of the War, he advised several financial measures, notably the issue of one-pound notes. Three times he was selected as British representative to the U. S.: 1915, as Sir Rufus Isaacs, head of the Anglo-French Loan Mission; 1917, as Viscount Reading, Special Envoy; 1918, as Earl Reading, Special Ambassador...
...neighbor-baiting pestiferation that earned him many beatings and an early discharge from Dartmouth College. Posturing as a ship's doctor, he went off to sea. A sharp, overweening tongue landed him in irons, foolish but innocent. At home again, penniless, he calculated his next plan for a career more thoughtfully. He stole some of his father's sermons and marched off under an assumed name looking for an empty pulpit. With admirable casuistry, he told himself that, since men liked to be preached to, it mattered not who preached, so long as the hearers were none...
...article, Dean Chase stresses the more complete realization now than ever before of the ideal personal sympathetic understanding between the students and the authorities. The developments along these lines in recent years, he says, can perhaps best be shown by tracing the career of an undergraduate through his four years and noticing the opportunities for personal contacts which come to him in the normal course of events...
...addition to the Faculty and senior advisers, whom the student comes to know at the beginning of his college career, the proctors living in the Freshman Dormitories in many cases prove helpful to individual Freshmen. Of them Dean Chase says: "We have been most fortunate in obtaining as Freshman proctors men of broad sympathies who have a real interest in the problems of Freshmen and who regard the keeping of order as the least important of their duties." By the end of his first year the student in most cases has met his tutor or an adviser from the department...