Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, Convocation met to elect a Chancellor. The Chancellorship, an honorary position of great dignity, became vacant on the death of Lord Curzon (TIME, Mar. 30). It was offered to Lord Milner, but he died before he could be installed (TIME, May 25). It was then decided to hold an election; and it appeared likely that the Earl of Oxford and Asquith-Premier H. H. Asquith, possibly the most distinguished of living Oxonians-would be chosen...
...afternoon, capped and gowned, he opened the University of Witwatersrand, the cornerstone of which was laid in 1922 by his cousin, Prince Arthur of Connaught, the then Governor General. Students yelled their lungs raw and the Vice Chancellor, Sir Robert Kotze, invested him with the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws...
Road improvement schemes have figured largely in the plans of past Governments for relief of the unemployed. Only last year, Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden earmarked $25,000,000 for road building...
House of Commons. The budget (TIME, May 11) received its third reading and was sent to the House of Lords* During debate Mr. Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, claimed that he had relieved the obligation of the direct taxpayer without creating new burdens...
Herbert S. Hadley, chancellor of Washington University LL.D...