Word: careers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eight innings that he toiled. He was removed for a pinch hitter at that time, and not because of the pressure of the opposing stickmen, though he lost the decision, 1 to 0. His removal in favor of a pinch hitter brings to mind an incident in Puffer's career last spring as a Second team twirler. Up to the time of the Yale Second team game, he had not violated the tradition that a pitcher should be impotent with the willow, and in the ninth inning of that game, with the Yale seconds leading by three runs, Coach Lake...
...president of the Harvard Overseers and of the lately-created Harvard Fund Council-not a "drive" organization but a permanent institution through which Harvard alumni will contribute annually in small amounts to the university's development and support- is a railroader of the same gauge, action, power. His career, except for an engineering course at Harvard, parallels Mr. Willard's closely-a New England parentage, ground-training in the Midwest, the presidency of the Northern Pacific at 42 (1903). In 1913 he accepted the task of rehabilitating the New York, New Haven & Hartford, but had to resign after...
...college men need some political education, but to make political life a definite career, a man under modern conditions must resolve upon it as his sole career. He must devote practically his whole time to it, and must give up any thought of improving his financial condition. Any thing less is not doing his whole duty to government. It is, of course, possible for a man to be active in private professional affairs and also active publicly, but such a man ought not attempt to hold public office for long periods...
...followed by The Admirable Crichton. It was offered to Grace George, who with remarkable insight suggested that the play would be most interesting if done by one of the new generation. Helen Hayes was consequently selected for the part, and probably made the greatest impression of her relatively brief career...
...written her memoirs,* and if the manner in which they have been set down is not notably distinctive, they have at least the advantage of having as their subject a personage. Now 67 years old, retired, living in her native Australia, she tells the story of an eventful, glamorous career, beginning with her struggles as Mrs. Nellie Mitchell Armstrong to interest someone in her voice, her study with Marchesi, eccentric old lady who could not tolerate Nellie's one winter dress and would not let her wash her hair for fear of taking cold. There are more memories than...