Word: careers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...elections that have marked the brief career of the German Republic, that of Sunday was most significant. Two facts stand out in the news of an overwhelming liberal victory: first, that the chauvinist Nationalist party, with its semi monarchical leanings and its vengeful grinding of teeth is unsatisfactory to the nation: second, that Germany is willing to go beyond a mere chiding of its die hard by militarists by supporting the pacifistic and conciliatory policies of Foreign Minister Sudesmann...
...course of his lecture he spoke also of his early career as a newspaper reporter and of his entrance into the profession of learning about and teaching sociology. His confreres, hearing of Professor Giddings' proposed retirement, though they knew that he was 73 years old, were confident that he would not cease to reinforce his preeminence in the science he has learned and taught so well, so long...
...Lowell. President Angell of Yale, president Bibben of Princeton. Dr. Perry, principal of Phillips Exeter, and numerous other college presidents, school headmasters, and political leaders will hear witness by their presence to the range of Andover influence. Harvard, Yale, and Princeton must feel a particularly close interest in the career of their younger colleague, bound to her as they are by the large number of Andover graduate in both their student and alumni bodies. Today many undergraduates of Harvard as of other eastern colleges will return to witness the Andover ceremonies, oblivious for the moment of college affiliations, feeling again...
Thus has the story run all through Mr. Lane's career as Harvard librarian. From the earliest days to the present Reading Period he has successfully met every emergency and carried on the daily work with a smooth sureness. The University can do no less than express its deepest appreciation of a work well done...
...living Buddha" means the priest (or rather, the candidate for Nirvana) who is by way of being pope in Tibet of present day Buddhism. A new Buddha is, however, predicted for each cycle, and it is such, evidently, that Jâli for a time thought himself. His exotic career at Cambridge is delightfully Zuleika Dobsonesque, and artificial as his rustic life in the Bois...