Word: chiefs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...hopes that the Prohibition wave had at last struck Harvard. Those hopes proved ill-grounded; but in the face of the returns from the recent Massachusetts elections and the recent national election, when four more states went for Prohibition, I believe it is imperative for the CRIMSON, as the chief representative of Harvard sentiment, to take some definite stand...
...working with the American Y. M. C. A. in the prison camps of the warring countries of Europe. This work has received little publicity in the country on account of the necessity of doing the work as quietly as possible in the early months of the war when the chief problem was to obtain permission of the governments to perform this service. It was only careful diplomatic work and promises to do in one country just what was being done in the enemy's country, that opened the way. This effort is of particular interest to Americans because the work...
...chief interest in these statistics no doubt is in the representation of schools. They serve mainly to show the shift and variation from year to year, as brilliant men chance to attend different schools, but they also show a tendency of some schools to remain in the honor class. While St. Mark's, last year's leader, is unrepresented this year, and Boston Latin, this year's leader, was in ninth place the year before, Exeter, Country Day School, Groton and St. Paul's School have shown a tendency to hold their respective places. Although one year's high rank...
...Aero Society will be addressed by Mr. Grover C. Loening, chief designer of the Sturtevant Aeroplane Company, of Boston, at its meeting in Stoughton 11 this evening at 8 o'clock. The topic of the address will be "Problems of Steel Construction"; a subject with which he is intimately acquainted. He is best known as author of "Vehicles of the Air," a popular and authoritative work on aeronautics...
...Jordan is well known for his interest in International Peace. In the first part of his career he was a professor and later became president of Leland Stanford Jr., from 1891-1913. Since then he has been chancellor. In 1910 he was made chief director of the World Peace Foundation. He has written many books among which are "The Voice of the Scholar" and "The Religion of a Sensible American...