Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...place in the Harding cabinet via law, mining, cattle dealing, lumber trading and being Senator from New Mexico, still carried his broad-brimmed black hat, still chewed unlighted cigars, but bore his 66 years tiredly. His grey mustache drooped, his grey suit hung loosely, he slouched silent in his chair...
...Oberlin College, at Oberlin, Ohio, went Dr. Ernest Hatch Wilkins, leaving the chair of romance languages at the University of Chicago. He succeeds Dr. Henry Churchill King, now president emeritus of Oberlin...
...telephone, telegraph and airplane arrangements. This would seem the most ordinary of precautions, but its unlovely materialism had previously been absent in the rosy abstractions of diplomatic oratory. It seems as though the action of the League is nearly always tardy or indecisive when it depends upon the fourteen chair-holding and voting nations. For example, the Americans who feared the six-to-one British voting ratio will not be mollified to learn that this year Canada has been elected to a voting place. The assurance by the Imperial Government that the colonies are autonomous communities within the British Empire...
Professor Eric R. D. Maclagan, Director and secretary of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the second incumbent of the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry, will begin his course of ten lectures on Italian Sculpture on November 2, it has recently been announced...
Professor Maclagan succeeds Professor Gilbert Murray of Oxford, who last year treated "The Classical Tradition in English Poetry." The holders of the chair, which was founded two years ago by the late C. C. Stillman '98, are not confined to literary forms of poetry alone, but may deal with music, painting, architecture or sculpture...