Word: careers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hockey candidates is to be held today at 5.30 o'clock in the Smith Halls common room. L. O. Pratt '26, the newly appointed Freshman hockey coach, will be on hand to give a short talk. Pratt was defense star on the 1926 Harvard sextet and ended his college career in the victory over Yale that year in the Madison Square Garden. Last year he played with other former Crimson stars on the University Club sextet. Coach Joseph Stubbs and Captain E. T. Putnam ocC will also address the candidates...
...Career: Born into a good family of social standing and abundant means, he was educated at expensive private schools. At 15 he started a juvenile newspaper of which his father, James H. Reed, bought every copy as a method of suppression. Sent to Princeton, he once ran away, hoboed his way to Washington, returned to his studies chastened by the experience. Graduated from Princeton in 1900, he studied law at the University of Pittsburgh, was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar in 1903, entered his father's law firm of Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay. The late Senator Knox, friend...
...part of his policy to strengthen U. S. diplomacy in Central and South America, President Hoover made a seven-way shuffle of ministerial posts last week. Three "career" ministers were promoted to better posts: Evan E. Young from the Dominican Republic to Bolivia, Roy Tasco Davis from Costa Rica to Panama, Hans Frederick Arthur Schoenfeld from Bulgaria to Costa Rica. Four career secretaries were advanced to their first full envoyships when Julius Garecke Lay was named Minister to Honduras, Matthew Elting Hanna to Nicaragua, Post Wheeler to Paraguay, Charles Boyd Curtis to Santo Domingo. Known as "bright young men" about...
...plot of the piece concerns the momentary romantic lapse of a British Cabinet Minister, Mr. Maddock, who has so closely applied himself to his career that he has forgotten how to dream. His own marriage and his elder daughter's were arranged solely for his political advantage...
...speech in the shires he sleeps in the bedroom which was the headquarters of his early dream-world. He dreams; his beloved Sally is there as always. In the morning he finds his "beauteous maiden" seated on the garden wall, so romantically like the dream that he renounces his career, and the high likelihood of the Prime Minister's portfolio, resolved at last to grasp the romance which his youth promised. He returns to London to bring his affairs to a close, and the reader may guess whether success closes in on him again...