Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cambridge talks with Cambridge this morning when President Lowell and Vice-Chancellor Weekes of Cambridge University inaugurate the new commercial telephone service between New England and London...
...head of Harvard and the head of Cambridge will exchange greetings at 8.30 o'clock this morning. President Lowell will speak from the offices of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company on Oliver Street, Boston. He will deliver a prepared message to Vice-Chancellor Weekes. Weather conditions, and report last night indicated that the conversation would not be interrupted by static to any great extent...
...Vice-Chancellor Weekes, speaking from London, will not be making an after-breakfast telephone call as will President Lowell. It will be afternoon in England when he speaks. The hour of the inauguration of the new line was selected with a view toward-favorable climatic conditions and the convenience of the customers who will begin using the line shortly after the formal opening...
...dozen discordant-factions. On first thought it would seem that the logical remedy for the anomalous position of the college president were to divide his office between two persons, as it is divided in England between the president of the college, whose interests are primarily scholarly, and the chancellor whose function is executive. In this country, however, the scholar and the business man are apt to be at such opposite poles of thought that such division of labor would only result in friction. It might even be suicidal. So authority must be vested in one man, a man of infinite...
...people had seen how it would be, but the actuality sur- passed prognostication. The Chancellor's oratorical census took on a new significance. Capital left Austria in billions, legally and by the connivance of avaricious Christians. For a time Christian gold flowed in from the outer world but soon it was all lost by the charming but impractical Viennese. Department stores passed into Christian hands but the aisles were vacant, management was stupid, fashion languished. The krone, dropping dizzily, turned today's newly-rich bourgeois into tomorrow's bankrupt. Theatres closed or gave dull plays with inept actors. Tens...