Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...used in "establishing a fund, the income of which shall be used for any one or more of the purposes herein mentioned as shall be in the judgment of the officers of the college of greatest benefit musically to the college, to wit: In establishing and maintaining a chair or chairs of music or musical history or musical aesthetics or in establishing and maintaining scholarships or fellowships in music, or in giving public performances of the musical compositions of talented students and graduates of the college, and if preferred of other musical composers...
...Such fund," the will adds, "to be known as the James Edward Ditson Endowment, and any chair, or scholarship or fellowship, which is established to bear his name; but nothing herein shall prevent said president and fellows of Harvard College from investing the money as part of their general fund and applying a proportionate part of the income of their general fund to the purposes of this bequest...
...Senators have a joint technique about secret sessions. When the Senate bells jingle three times, Superintendent James D. Preston of the Senate Press Gallery shooes all correspondents out of the gallery, closes its big double doors, locks them with an immense key and, for good measure, props a swivel chair against them...
...through its adversaries from which grew a harvest of lasting football fame. Rushers Heffelfinger and Morison, though, had helpful teammates: John Augustus Hartwell (now a famed Manhattan surgeon) in the line; Thomas Lee McClung (onetime [1909-1912] Treasurer of the U. S.) and Vance Criswell McCormick (Democratic National Committee Chair-man in Wilson's 1916 campaign) in the backfield. And on the substitutes' bench sat Thomas Cochran (Morgan partner and Director of General Electric) and Ralph Delahay Paine (author of College Years, The Head Coach, The Stroke Oar, Campus Days...
...benefit of Conservatives too shy to sing "Stanley Boy," too lethargic to attend party rallies, a new poster has appeared on British hoardings. It shows a lilliputian David Lloyd George and a bandy-legged Ramsay MacDonald violently speechifying near the easy chair of an apathetic young Conservative...