Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Officers of the Harvard Dramatic Club for 1928 were elected at a meeting of the club held last night. Charles Leatherbee '29 of New York City was chosen president; Gerald Wallace Harrington '30 of Mattapoisett vice-president, and john Hanna Morris '29 of Cambridge, secretary. Two other men were elected to constitute the Executive Committee with the three elected officers. They are Edward Trumbull Batchelder '30 of Salem, and Hollis Guptill Gerrish '30 of Somerville...
Possibly the visiting members of the Radley School could have chosen no more unusual period of the college year in which to see Harvard than the present one. That strange thing called the Reading Period following on the Christmas holidays and foreboding the midyear examinations has made the even tenor of collegiate ways less even and slightly bewildered. The calm fall days have gone and the lethargy of late winter...
...regard to the "experts," could such be found who would be willing to base their efforts on the criterion that punishment should be made commensurate with the crime? I list the following as representative specialists from which a board of correction might be chosen: Dean Roscoe Pound, Judge Julian W. Mack, Dr. George W. Kirchway, Hon. B. G. Lewis, Dr. Bernard Glueck, Dr. W. A. White, Dr. Herman M. Adler, Dr. William Healy. Do any of these believe in punishments to fit crimes? I believe...
Critics blamed, not necessarily the ineptitude or insincerity of young U. S. essayists, not necessarily a dwindling of public interest in Woodrow Wilson, but perhaps the title chosen for the contest: "What Woodrow Wilson Means to Me." This was a "true-story", confessional title, and naturally produced embarrassingly sentimental contributions...
...Negro man on the street asks, wasn't some Big Negro chosen instead of Mr. Southard? Wasn't a Negro sent to Liberia as Minister?" Well, why not a Negro as Minister to Ethiopia...