Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...morning after the day before. The President arose earlier than usual, took a long walk on the streets of downtown Washington, returned to the White House, ate a hearty breakfast. Then in his office in an easy chair in front of the tall south windows he read newspapers and election telegrams, placidly. Messengers came in with more despatches; he picked them up mechanically, smoking slowly. The expression on his face was as emotionless as that of a man thoughtfully perusing the telephone directory. Then William Randolph Hearst came in for luncheon, suggested that the President go to California...
Last week Johns Hopkins, where he directs the School of Hygiene and Public Health, "promoted" him. The university had received $200,000 from the General Education Board for a chair of medical history, the first in the U. S. Few men are capable of this professorship. The average doctor learns piecemeal and verbally the Aeschulapian tradition and is little tempted to write on the history of his profession, although such writing should be comparatively easy. As Dr. Welch said last week: "There always has been but one goal in medicine, the prevention and cure of disease. That gives a unity...
...learned enough to fill this new chair at Johns Hopkins, the university chose, last week, Dr. Welch...
...Brown '27, President of the Circolo, will occupy the chair, and will outline the past activities of the Circolo, and speak of the plans for the coming year. Professor C. K. Grandgent '83, Professor G. B. Weston '97, and the Marquis Ferranto di Ruffano, Royal Italian Consul at Boston will deliver brief addresses on Italy and the work of the Circolo...
...plan of upperclass study, Princeton and Harvard have blazed the trail in the advance of vital education. The Princeton and Harvard art departments have the closest cooperation in the purchase of books, exchange of professors and in the direction of research; a Princeton man occupies the former chair of Albert Bushnell Hart while a Harvard man occupies Princeton's finest position in mathematical research. Throughout the nation Harvard, Yale and Princeton clubs combine--not to proselytize in their localities but to spread the ideal of self-education. Is it logical that these groups would permit ungentlemanly playing, derogation of scholastic...