Word: chiefs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Moroccan situation gave Italy her chance to step into Tripoli, a land filled with a motley crowd of people. There are whites, Arabs, and Negroes composing the chief element of the population, and there are the Bedouins or nomadic Arabs living in the oases which are sprinkled over the desert and around the towns. But these people are hard to civilize and, as much as they hate their Turkish conquerors, they like them better than they do the Christians. The country has always been closed to the civilizing influences which have sometimes been set toward it. It remains a land...
...valuable, member of the Liberal party. In 1886, he was made under secretary for foreign affairs, and in 1892 he joined the cabinet, successively acting as chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, president of the Board of Trade, chairman of the royal commission on secondary education, and chief secretary for Ireland in 1905. Finally, he was appointed to the position of British ambassador at Washington, which he has held since...
...judges were Mr. Edgar N. Wrightington, vice-president of the Boston Consolidated Gas Company, and Mr. F. B. Tracy, editor-in-chief of the Boston Transcript...
Professor W. A. Neilson h. '96, in speaking, told the men to avoid being what are sometimes called knotiess threads, men who pass through College but leave no mark and do no service. There are many of these in each class, the chief trouble being that they have no definite objective in their College lives. One must stand back from one's ideal to get a proper perspective of it. Then, seeing clearly what it is that one wants, one has the first safeguard against being a knotless thread. It is difficult to select one object out of the many...
...collegians from northern New York showed that they had made good use of the ice facilities which they have on Lake Cayuga by bringing down a team which won practically every game on schedule and took the intercollegiate hockey championship with ease. Skating has always been one of the chief pastimes at Cornell, and inasmuch as they have a great many Canadian students there with whom hockey is the favorite sport, it looks as though the Ithacans would carry off the honors in this particular field for a good many years to come. Indeed, it would not be surprising...