Word: chapter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gibson is best known for his service in Belgium during the War, as Secretary of the U. S. Legation. His A Journal from Our Legation in Belgium was widely read on its appearance in 1917, its dramatic quality, especially in the chapter on " The Last Hour of Edith Cavell" not at all impaired by his rigid adherence to facts...
...auction of the late Lord Bryce's effects in London, a rare copy of his The American Commonwealth was knocked down for $16. This volume contained the unexpurgated chapter, withdrawn from later volumes, dealing with Tammany Hall and Tweed Ring corruption in Manhattan politics. This chapter cost Lord Bryce $50,000 in a law suit after his book was first published...
Against the Ku Klux Klan he appeared particularly emphatic. And although he only appeared mildly amused on learning that Harvard was supposed to contain a chapter of the Klux, he expressed himself against the Klan as a whole in no uncertain terms...
...Beta Kappa is the oldest Greek letter fraternity in America, founded in 1776 at William and Mary College. The Harvard chapter is the Alpha chapter of Massachusetts and was established in 1779, three years after the organization of the fraternity. In the past such men have belonged to the chapter as Ralph Waldo Emerson '21, Charles W. Eliot '53, Le Baron Russell Briggs '75, James Russell Lowell '38, Abbott Lawrence Lowell '77, Frederick J. Stimson '76, Theodore Roosevelt '80, Curtis Guild '81, and Gardiner Lane...
...symposium this evening is the which will be given during the winter under the auspices of the Harvard chapter of the Gamma Alpha, the National graduate scientific society. The next symposium will be held early in December and will be on the subject of "Sound". The speakers will be Professor F.A. Saunders, of the department of physics, Dr. A.T. Davison '06, associate professor of music, and Professor G.H. Parker '87, director of the Zoological Laboratory at the University...